What is the duty of a driver to avoid collision with a pedestrian?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Anderson v. Kozniuk, 2011 BCSC 1678 (CanLII):
This duty, accompanied by other useful observations about the respective duties of drivers and pedestrians, was recently restated by Dickson J. in Hmaied v. Wilkinson, 2010 BCSC 1074 at paras. 22 - 24:
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