Practice question
A defendant creates an unsafe traffic hazard. Ordinary negligent driving of the kind made foreseeable by that hazard contributes to injury. The defendant invokes the later act solely as an automatic break. Which is correct?
- The last act always breaks causation
- Every negligent driver is legally unrelated to every road hazard
- Foreseeability never matters
- Any moving vehicle erases a stationary hazard
- The later negligence must be evaluated within the created risk; it does not automatically break the chain
Legal references
- Phoenix Construction, G.R. L-65295, March 10, 1987: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri1987/mar1987/gr_l-65295_1987.html
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