Practice question
An organizer relies on the participant’s awareness that vehicles use a highway as conclusive proof that the organizer had no need to anticipate injury. Is that sound?
- Yes, only spectators can suffer foreseeable injury
- Yes, awareness always waives all precautions
- Yes, general danger knowledge eliminates duty
- Yes, a road race is legally incapable of negligence
- No; participant awareness does not itself discharge the organizer’s care obligation
Legal references
- Civil Code, Articles 1735, 1755-1756, 2176, 2179, 2184-2185 and 2214: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1949/ra_386_1949.html
- Abrogar v. Cosmos Bottling Co., G.R. No. 164749, March 15, 2017, MAIN decision: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2017/mar2017/gr_164749_2017.html
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