The proximate cause requirement for a negligence tort is most likely not met where:
A) A driver injures a pedestrian when rounding a curve at twice the legal speed limit.
B) A customer becomes ill from food that is carelessly packed at a processing plant.
C) A customer in a building supply store carelessly drops a small can of paint that breaks
open and is ignited from a spark caused when the metal can hits the concrete floor.
D) A patient becomes sick from a doctor carelessly prescribing the wrong medicine.
E) The victim of an accident was aware, prior to the actual accident, that the accident was
likely to occur.
C
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