What is the standard of care of an occupier in a motor vehicle accident?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Curtiss v The Corporation of the District of West Vancouver, 2018 BCSC 509 (CanLII):

The standard of care does not require the removal of every possible danger: Agar at para. 29. Furthermore, the test is not “whether anything could have been done to prevent the injury using 20/20 hindsight, but rather whether the steps taken by the occupier were reasonable in all the circumstances”: Duddle v. Vernon (City), 2004 BCCA 390 at para. 16 (quoting with approval from the trial judgment).

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