Yun v. Ford Motor Co.

Yun (plaintiff) was driving a van on the highway when its spare tire, attached to the back, fell off. She pulled over, and her father crossed the highway on foot to retrieve the tire; he was struck by another car and killed. Yun sued several defendants, including the manufacturer of the allegedly defective spare tire assembly (defendant), for her father's death. The trial court granted the defendants summary judgment, and Yun appealed.

Whether a pedestrian's death after running into the street to retrieve a fallen part is a reasonably foreseeable consequence of a defect in that part, sufficient to establish proximate cause.