What is the standard of conduct of a driver in a motor vehicle accident?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Hale v. MacEwen, 2011 BCSC 1404 (CanLII):

A driver's conduct must be judged by the standards of normal persons and not by applying the standards of perfection: Freedman v. City of Côte St. Luc, 1971 CanLII 162 (SCC), [1972] S.C.R. 216.

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