What is the standard of care imposed on the driver of a bus driver in a motor vehicle accident?
Yukon, Canada
The following excerpt is from O'Neill v. City of Whitehorse, 2006 YKSM 1 (CanLII):
In this case, the standard of care imposed on the bus driver is the conduct or behaviour that would be expected of the reasonably prudent bus driver in the circumstances: Wang v. Horrod, [1998] B.C.J. No. 1288 (B.C.C.A.) at paragraph 29.
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