Civil liability for traffic accidents with game species

Abstract

The following article adresses how the system of civil liability is going to be affected by damages and injury arising from traffic accidents caused by a collision with game species, as a consequence of the coming into force on 9 May, this year, of the Law 6/2014 of 7 April, by which the Law on Traffic, Motor Vehicle Traffic and Road Safety, approved by Royal Decree 339/1990 of 2 March, has been modified. The new wording given by the above-mentioned law, the Ninth Additional Provision, implies a complete change in the civil liability system to the extent that the driver moves from being uniquely responsible when the accident has occured due to the non-observance of the road traffic rules, to being always responsible for the accident, except in the referred cases in the provision itself.