Does a driver who backed his truck into a pedestrian who bent over and bent over to pick up her cell phone, causing her injury?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Geddert v Stokes, 2021 BCSC 656 (CanLII):
In Araujo v. Vincent, 2012 BCSC 1836 [Araujo], the parties attended the same high school. While leaving the school ground, the plaintiff dropped her cell phone, and bent over to pick it up. While she did so, the defendant backed his truck into her.
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