What is the test for determining whether a defendant is responsible for a motor vehicle accident?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from Guzman v. Peckson, B264039 (Cal. App. 2016):

"[W]here [an] accident is of such a nature that it can be said, in the light of past experience, that it probably was the result of negligence by someone that the defendant is probably the person who is responsible" (Siverson v. Weber (1962) 57 Cal.2d 834, 836),

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