What is a driver's obligation to follow the rules regulating traffic?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Rainey v Fane, 2019 BCSC 447 (CanLII):

Drivers are expected to proceed on the assumption that others will abide by their respective obligations, that is, to observe the rules regulating traffic providing that it is not reasonably apparent that the other driver is failing to do so: Gill v. Francis, [1997] B.C.J. No. 2491 at para. 17 (S.C.).

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