Where two motor vehicles collide, each of them is deemed to have contributed equally to cause the accident.
Civil Code
2015 English source edition · Current applicability not established.
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Article 1629
Collision between Vehicles · Preserved transcription; page attribution imported from the source collection. Verify against the original.
The owner of each vehicle, or the holder answerable for it, bears half of the total amount of the injury caused by the accident.
The provisions of this Article shall not apply where it is proved that the accident was caused, wholly or chiefly, by the fault of one of the drivers.