Can a public entity be held liable for failing to prevent a person from being injured in a motor vehicle accident?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from Dickey v. City of La Habra, G044486, Super. Ct. No. 06CC12528 (Cal. App. 2012):

dangerous condition created a reasonably foreseeable risk of the kind of injury that occurred; and the public entity had sufficient prior notice of the dangerous condition to enable it to have undertaken measures to protect against such condition. [Citation.]" (Goebel v. City of Santa Barbara (2001) 92 Cal.App.4th 549, 557.)

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