Certified by the Court of Appeals for Lucas County.

1. A common carrier of passengers has a duty to exercise the highest degree of care to afford its passengers an opportunity to alight in a reasonably safe place.

2. A passenger is not discharged at a “reasonably safe place” merely because he is not injured in the very act of alighting.

3. A motorbus common carrier is liable for injuries proximately resulting from its negligence in faffing to afford *69a passenger an opportunity to alight in a reasonably safe place even though the passenger had alighted and had taken two or three steps before he was injured.

Judgment reversed and cause remanded.