What is the test for foreseeability of liability in a motor vehicle accident?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Crawford v. Penney, 2003 CanLII 32636 (ON SC):
Dickson J., as he then was, in the Queen v. Côté et al, 1974 CanLII 31 (SCC), [1976] 1 S.C.R. 595, (1974), 51 D.L.R. (3d) 244, 3 N.R. 341(S.C.C.), noted that: It is not necessary that one foresee the ‘precise concatenation of events’; it is enough to fix liability if can foresee in a general way the class or character of injury which occurred.
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