What is the scope of liability for a bartender who served alcohol to a driver who is later involved in a collision?

Once the roadblock ² was gone, and the avenue of liability opened to members of the general public injured as a result of a collision with a driver alleged to have been served by a bartender when in an obviously intoxicated condition, others sought its use. In Coulter v. Superior Court, supra, 21 Cal.3d 144, 145 Cal.Rptr. 534, 577 P.2d 669, the scope was expended to passengers in the drunk driver's automobile, and to place possible liability on a social host or other noncommercial provider of alcohol to an

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