What is the test for determining whether a motor vehicle driver is responsible for causing or not causing an accident?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Moore v. Ruth, 139 Cal.App.2d 70, 292 P.2d 939 (Cal. App. 1956):
In Turkovich v. Rowland, 106 Cal.App.2d 445, 447, 235 P.2d 123, it was held that it was the province of the jury to determine the cause of the accident in that case and that when an automobile following another runs into the car in front, negligence is a question of fact and not of law.
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