Opinion
April 17, 1995
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Oshrin, J.).
Ordered that the order is reversed insofar as appealed from, on the law, with costs, by deleting therefrom the provision directing the Town of Smithtown to provide discovery and inspection of postaccident repairs and remedial measures.
Evidence of subsequent repairs and remedial measures is not discoverable or admissible in a negligence case unless, unlike in this case, there is an issue of maintenance or control (see, Cacciolo v Port Auth., 186 A.D.2d 528; Klatz v Armor El. Co., 93 A.D.2d 633).
On the other hand, it has been consistently held that evidence of subsequent accidents at the same place and under the same conditions as the accident in question, while of no probative value regarding the question of notice, is admissible to establish the existence of a dangerous condition, instrumentality, or place (Klatz v Armor El. Co., supra). Bracken, J.P., Rosenblatt, Krausman and Goldstein, JJ., concur.