VA · jury_instructions
Va. Model Jury Instr. Civ. No. 10.040
Control: Skidding
The fact that a vehicle skidded on a slippery road is not, of itself, sufficient to establish
negligence on the part of the driver. If you believe by the greater weight of the evidence that the
skidding was caused by failure of the defendant to act as a reasonable person would have acted
under the circumstances, then the defendant was negligent. If you believe that the slippery
condition of the road was the only cause of the skidding, then the defendant was not negligent.
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
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- vacourts.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-11
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- civ-2026-04-01
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