A plaintiff knows that the wheel bearing of the front tire of the plaintiff's bicycle is failing but
nonetheless decides to go for a bike ride. The bearing fails and plaintiff swerves into on-coming traffic
and gets hit. The driver will use which defense to escape liability?
A) contributory negligence B) last clear chance
C) comparative negligence D) assumption of the risk
Question 2
That theory of comparative negligence which would allow plaintiff to recover if 8 liable for the
injury but not for 39 liable for the injury is known as
A) partial comparative negligence
B) modified comparative negligence
C) slight-gross theory of comparative negligence
D) modified comparative negligence
