Court Opinion

ID: 9543243
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 16:43:38.593422+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:10:01.429993
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*844Wilkins, J.
(concurring). One may fairly conclude that some customers would reasonably have interpreted a mini-serve sign as the equivalent of a self-service sign. The sign thus increased the likelihood that certain customers would leave their vehicles to pump gas. The question is whether, as a matter of law, Arco’s failure to erect a sign warning customers to be on guard against other vehicles did not unreasonably increase the risk of injury caused by the improper operation of other vehicles on the premises. I agree with the court that the evidence did not present a jury question.
Conclusions such as no “proximate cause” or the absence of “reasonable foreseeability” help to describe the result, but they do little or nothing to explain the considerations that led to those conclusions. In my view, the risk of injury to a customer from the negligent operation of another vehicle on the premises of a self-service station is inherent and obvious. There is no duty to warn of such a danger.