In a motor vehicle accident, can a rock or piece of rock fall from a dump truck and hit the sunroof of a vehicle?
Nova Scotia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Jeffery v. Naugler, 2006 NSSC 43 (CanLII):
In Amos v. Watkins [1995] N.J. No. 409, the plaintiff made a claim for property damage to the sunroof of his vehicle and alleged that a rock flew from the dump truck that proceeded ahead of him.
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