VA · jury_instructions
Va. Model Jury Instr. Civ. No. 10.010
Right to Assume Other Driver’s Ordinary Care
The driver of a vehicle has a right to assume that the driver of another vehicle will operate
such other vehicle in a lawful manner until he realizes, or in the exercise of ordinary care should
realize, that the other driver is not going to do so.
History
Virginia Model Jury Instructions – Civil, Release 26, April 2026. The unannotated set, posted by the Supreme Court of Virginia at vacourts.gov; the book states that it is made available with the permission of the publisher, Matthew Bender & Company, Inc.
Provenance
- Source
- vacourts.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-11
- Edition
- civ-2026-04-01
- Content hash
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