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How Can I Avoid Liability For Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress To a Bystander In an Automobile Accident?

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How Can I Avoid Liability For Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress To a Bystander In an Automobile Accident?

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One defense that the at-fault driver may raise is to show that the emotional distress was not reasonably foreseeable. A common way to do so is to show that the bystander is not closely related to the injured victim.