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Torts 2020 BCSC 1950

Postic v. Demarco

Liability decision from a motorcycle collision case in Vancouver. The court found both drivers negligent and apportioned fault 70% to the defendant and 30% to the plaintiff.

  • Contributory negligence
  • Apportionment of liability
  • Overtaking
  • Duty to signal
  • Duty to shoulder check
  • Foreseeability
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Torts 2010 BCSC 37

Bathgate v. Korolek

The court found the plaintiff caused a motor vehicle collision by moving into the median, failing to signal, and making a sudden right turn into the defendant's vehicle.

  • Duty to signal
  • Safe turning obligations
  • Causation
  • Apportionment of fault
  • Statutory breaches (motor vehicle act)
  • Motor-vehicle-negligence
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Torts [1948] SCR 82

Charbonneau v. Dubé

The Supreme Court of Canada allowed the appeal in a bicycle-truck collision, holding the truck drivers rebutted the statutory presumption of fault and that the cyclist’s sudden left turn caused the accident.

  • Presumption of fault
  • Contributory negligence
  • Duty to signal
  • Overtaking
  • Causation
  • Negligence
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Motor vehicle law [1946] SCR 129

The King v. Anderson

The Supreme Court of Canada held that an army truck driver was solely negligent for turning left without checking for traffic or giving a visible signal.

  • Duty to signal
  • Failure to look
  • Contributory negligence
  • Reasonable necessity to sound horn
  • Regulatory compliance by drivers
  • Motor-vehicle-negligence
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