What is the standard of care of a driver in a motor vehicle accident?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Jacobs v Basil, 2017 BCSC 1339 (CanLII):
The standard of care to be applied to drivers is that of a reasonably prudent motorist in light of all the circumstances. Motorists are not required to anticipate all foreseeable road hazards, but only those that are reasonably foreseeable. The standard of care of a driver is not one of perfection, but whether the driver acted in a manner in which an ordinarily prudent person would act: Hadden v. Lynch, 2008 BCSC 295, at para. 69.
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