Opinion ID: 2606599
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Heading Rank: 4

Heading: legal cause requiring denial of summary judgment

Text: The principal issue of this case is whether a driver who fails to observe statutory requirements to afford an opportunity for a following vehicle to pass, incurs a zone of liability to an oncoming vehicle when the passing and oncoming vehicles collide without impacting the slower-moving passed vehicle. It would be reasonable for the jury to find that the driver of the slower-moving vehicle does have a duty imposed by the statutes, and that his liability may extend to the occupant of oncoming vehicles. This is the specific difference between what I think the law is, and the pathway now taken by the majority. The majority now seem to determine that the slower driver does not have a duty to third parties even where his acts which contravene the statutes may cause another driver to act in a foreseeable manner which directly produces the resulting damage and injury.