Di Ponzio v. Riordan

How courts have described this case

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• holding defendant not liable because duty to shut off car’s engine at a gas station was to prevent fires not physical injuries resulting from rolling cars
• rejecting gas station’s liability for injury to driver caused by a nearby car rolling into him, despite recognizing that gas station has a duty to ensure drivers turn off their cars to avoid fires and explosions, and discharge of such duty may have avoided the injury
• “Foreseeability of risk is an essential element of a fault-based negligence cause of action because the community deems a person at fault only when the injury-producing occurrence is one that could have been anticipated.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).