What is the effect of bad driving in a motor vehicle accident?
Saskatchewan, Canada
The following excerpt is from Ducharme and Holben v. Davies and Rogoschewsky, 1983 CanLII 2310 (SK CA):
As Lord Denning, M.R., observed in Froom v. Butcher, [1976] Q.B. 286; [1975] 3 All E.R. 520 at 525: The accident is caused by bad driving. The damage is caused in part by the bad driving of the defendant, and in part by the failure of the plaintiff to wear a seat belt.
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