page_title: Kuipers v Gordon Riley Transport
section_title: Background
hierarchical_section_title: Kuipers v Gordon Riley Transport / Background
caption_attribution_description: English: Tractor of a Gordon Riley Transport truck on display at Edmonton Oilfield Technical Society Park
context_page_description: Kuipers v Gordon Riley Transport, 1 C.C.L.T. 233 was a Canadian personal injury case involving negligence, standard of care, causation, and hindsight.
context_section_description: On 29 January 1972, Albertan newspapers including the Edmonton Journal and the Red Deer Advocate reported that a young boy had sustained serious injuries following a car crash south of Red Deer the previous day (28 January 1972). Four years later when the injuries were addressed in court, the multi-vehicle collision was described in more detail. An initial collision between two vehicles in a whiteout area led both drivers to stop southbound on Alberta Highway 2. When a third vehicle driven by plaintiff Gerhardus Kuipers approached the site of the collision, it was forced to stop. A semi-trailer truck operated by Gordon Riley Transport subsequently entered the whiteout area and violently struck Kuipers' vehicle from the rear. Other collisions resulted and Alberta Supreme Court Justice Samuel Sereth Lieberman stated that the incident came to involve a total of eight vehicles.
caption: A Gordon Riley Transport truck on display at the Oilfield Technical Society's Centennial Park in southwest Edmonton
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