Tortious Liability of a Driver in Road Traffic

Abstract

The tortious liability of the driver of a motor vehicle under the Slovene Code of Obligations is regulated by various provisions, de-pending the role in which the driver appears as participant in a road accident. If the driver of the motor vehicle causes a traffic ac-cident and damage to a person who is not participant in the traffic accident as the driver of a motor vehicle, his tortious liability is jud-ged according to the rules of strict tortious liability. If at least two motor vehicles are participant in the traffic accident and mutual causation of damage occurs, the rules of strict tortious liability are not used. The Code of Obligations, therefore, regulates in special provisions the tortious liability of the drivers of the motor vehicles if the damage was caused by the exclusive fault of one of the drivers of the motor vehicles, if the fault for the traffic accident is two-sided and if none of the drivers of motor vehicles is culpable for causing the accident. The Code of Obligations also regulates in a special provision the tortious liability of drivers of motor vehicles for da-mage caused to a third person by at least two drivers of motor ve-hicles. The Author analyses all the various situations by which a driver of a motor vehicle can appear as a participant in a road ac-cident and presents Slovene case law on this topic.

Keywords

• tortious liability,strict liability,road traffic law,traffic accident,mo-tor vehicles,law of obligations

Tortious Liability of a Driver in Road Traffic

Abstract

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Keywords

• tortious liability,strict liability,road traffic law,traffic accident,mo-tor vehicles,law of obligations

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