Bradley Baumann v. Vladimir Zhukov

I believe the district court improperly granted summary judgment because a reasonable juror could find Slezak’s negligence was foreseeable by Zhukov and Johnson. Therefore, I respectfully dissent.

In secondary-accident cases, the issue is typically whether the negligent act that caused the second accident was so extraordinary it'was not foreseeable to the first negligent driver. See Blood v. VH-1 Music First, 668 F.3d 543, 548 (7th Cir.2012) (finding the second driver’s negligence was *957“extraordinary” when he crashed into stopped traffic at nearly fifty-five miles-per-hour in clear weather…