This seems dead wrong to me. The law of negligence restricts property
rights in all sorts of ways and for very good reasons.

Subject to proving foreseeability i.e. that it was reasonably
foreseeable that the high vedgetation would cause an accident, I think
this action should have succeeded.

On 5/4/18, Andrew Tettenborn <a.m.tettenborn@swansea.ac.uk> wrote:
> The court dealt with that: they regarded the "near the highway" cases as
> cases where there was something physically affecting the highway itself,
> such as smoke blowing over it from a fire nearby. The danger on the
> highway, in other words, had to be physical, not simply a matter
> abstractly reducing the safety road users might otherwise enjoy.
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> Andrew
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> On 04/05/18 17:55, Jason W Neyers wrote:
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>> I wonder how this result squares with the older cases which claimed
>> that it was a public nuisance to create a danger on or /near/ a public
>> highway.
>>
>> *esig-law*
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>> *From:*Andrew Tettenborn <a.m.tettenborn@swansea.ac.uk>
>> *Sent:* May 4, 2018 10:26 AM
>> *To:* obligations@uwo.ca
>> *Subject:* off-highway negligence
>>
>> A nice case today about occupiers' non-liability. If I own land next
>> to the highway and do something with it that restricts visibility on
>> the highway, do I owe a duty of care to highway users? No. Highway
>> users take the view (or lack of it) next to the highway as they find
>> it. So a Welsh government was not liable for planting high vegetation
>> next to the highway that caused a car to hit a cyclist. Presumably
>> this also would cover, for example, the person who put up a picture of
>> an attractive naked woman on his house that, like Zuleika Dobson,
>> fatally distracted passers-by at a critical time.
>>
>> See Sumner v Colborne [2018] EWCA Civ 1006
>> <http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2018/1006.html>
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>> Odd though it may seem, I suspect this is right. I don't see why
>> landowners' property rights should be restricted where they don't
>> physically impinge on non-visitors' space: in the same way that
>> occupiers don't owe any duty to keep those on neighbouring land safe
>> -- Armstrong v Keepmoat Homes Ltd, QBD (Newcastle District Registry),
>> unreported 3 February 2012.
>>
>> Andrew
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