California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Saucedo, E059903 (Cal. App. 2015):
limited the braking ability of the car." The evidence, however, showed that defendant did not even attempt to brake before the accident. More fundamentally, this would not relieve defendant of guilt. Defendant would still be at fault for getting drunk, speeding and veering off the road. Impaired braking ability would be, at most, a concurrent cause of the accident, not an independent, superseding cause. (See generally People v. Cervantes (2001) 26 Cal.4th 860, 871.)
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