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Practice question: Efficient Intervening Cause

Multiple Choice Hard

Practice question

An organizer negligently directs runners into an unsafe open-traffic route without adequate protection. A foreseeable vehicle collision injures a runner. The court finds that traffic exposure was the very risk created and no independent efficient break occurred. The organizer says any negligent motorist necessarily supersedes the organizer. Which is correct?
  1. Every motorist automatically supersedes every organizer
  2. The organizer’s negligence can remain proximate because the stipulated traffic event lies within the created foreseeable risk
  3. Organizers never owe any care
  4. Only the runner’s shoes matter
  5. The route’s name determines liability

Legal references

  • Abrogar, G.R. 164749, March 15, 2017: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2017/mar2017/gr_164749_2017.html

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