What is a driver’s obligation to avoid hitting a pedestrian?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Jacobs v Basil, 2017 BCSC 1339 (CanLII):
A driver’s obligation to take evasive action to avoid hitting a pedestrian only arises when he or she becomes aware, or ought to have become aware, that the pedestrian was not going to obey the law: Beauchamp v. Shand, 2004 BCSC 272, at para. 33.
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