What is the difference between the facts of a motor vehicle accident and the situations in which a city was held liable in tort for failing to prevent the accident?

We perceive no substantive differences between the facts of this case and the situations in such decisions as Lehto v. City of Oxnard, supra, 171 Cal.App.3d 285, 217 Cal.Rptr. 450 and Jackson v. Clements, supra, 146 Cal.App.3d 983, 194 Cal.Rptr. 553. In fact, Lehto is almost precisely identical. The Lehto court held that the city was not liable in tort for the alleged negligence of its police officers in failing to prevent a drunken driver from

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