What is the degree of fault of a driver in a motor vehicle accident?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Greenall v. Watson, 1995 CanLII 1168 (BC SC):
44 As to degrees of fault, Munroe J. in Yuan v. Farstad said: The major share of the fault must, I think, be attributed to the defendant driver because notwithstanding the fault of the deceased, the fact remains that he would still be uninjured and alive were it not for the negligence of the defendant in causing the collision.
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