What is the test for a person to be held responsible for the actions of the wrongdoer in a motor vehicle accident?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Bridge v. Jo, 1998 CanLII 6736 (BC SC):
In Wagner v. International Ry. Co. (N.Y.) (1921) 188 N.E. 437, he said: Danger invites rescue. The cry of distress is the summons to relief. The law does not ignore these reactions of the mind in tracing conduct to its consequences. It recognizes them as normal. It places their effects within the range of the natural and probable. ... The risk of rescue, if only it be not wanton, is born of the occasion. The emergency begets the man (or woman). The wrongdoer may not have foreseen the coming of a deliverer. He is accountable as if he had. ... Continuity in such circumstances is not broken by the exercise of volition.
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