What is the test for determining the colour of a traffic control light?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from McLatchie v Guineau, 2017 BCSC 1950 (CanLII):

In Miller v. Dent, 2014 BCCA 234, the court states that in a case such as this, the first step in the liability analysis is to determine the colour of the traffic control light.

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