Does a bus driver have a right to sue the bus operator for damages for failing to stop for pedestrians?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Utting v. Coast Mountain Bus et al, 2014 BCPC 86 (CanLII):

Mr. Justice Berger in Sawatsky v. Romanchuk, [1979] B.C.J. No. 964 (S.C.) noted that: ... this is not a case where negligence has been established. I say that because, though the bus lurched as it started up, it was a lurch that she, as someone who had travelled on the buses for twenty years had experienced in the past. Anyone who travels on the buses must expect that from time to time the movement of the buses will not be smooth and uneventful. Lurches are part of the movement of these buses and something that the people who travel on the buses learn to expect. Accidents do happen. And there are bound to be some accidents on the bus system. And some of them, like this accident, will not give rise to a right to damages. He characterized the issue in the case before him as whether ... The braking of the bus was something that did not fall outside the normal range of movements that passengers ought to expect on the buses. ...

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