Have regard for the rescuer (would-be rescuer sues for injuries sustained).

A woman out shoveling snow on a sidewalk outside her home in Abbotsford BC has been awarded damages for injuries she suffered when she went to the aid of a motorist hurt in a collision on the road in front of her home. The plaintiff slipped in the snow and broke her leg when she attempted go to call an ambulance. The Judge said that the pickup truck driver who caused the accident owed a duty of care to the woman who acted as a rescuer as well as to the other motorist. Justice Boyle of the BC Supreme Court ruled that it was reasonably foreseeable that when an...