VA · jury_instructions
Va. Model Jury Instr. Civ. No. 10.020
Lookout: Scope of Duty to Keep a Proper Lookout
The duty to keep a proper lookout requires a driver to use ordinary care to look in all
directions for [vehicles; persons; conditions] that would affect his driving, to see what a reasonable
person would have seen, and to react as a reasonable person would have acted to avoid a collision
under the circumstances.
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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