Claar v. Auburn School District No. 408

¶1 Washington law recognizes two elements of proximate cause: cause in fact and legal causation. Here legal causation is absent.

Grosse, J.

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¶2 In September 2000, Linda Johnson was driving her normal afternoon bus route, dropping students off after school. Sisters Danae and Sanna Claar, ages 13 and 16 respectively, were on her bus. That afternoon Johnson overshot the Claars’ normal afternoon bus stop. The exact point at which the Claars were dropped off was anywhere from 20 to 100 feet past their typical stop. It is undisputed that the Claars were dropped off closer to their driveway than…