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Appellant’s violation of this statute hinges on the interpretation of the word “impossible.” In Geisen v. Luce, 185 Minn. 479 , 242 N.W.

In addition, defendants contend that notwithstanding MacMillan’s own negligence, the negligence of other drivers in the collision intervened and was a superseding cause which insulated defendant’s negligence, citing Geisen v. Luce, 185 Minn. 479 , ; Medved v. Doolittle, 220 Minn. 352 , 19 N. W. (2d) 788 ; and Sims v. Hallett Const. Co. 247 Minn. 339 , 77 N. W. (2d) 54 .

It is true that the time factor which characterizes the intervening efficient cause is not present here with the same force as presented in Medved v. Doolittle, supra, and Geisen v. Luce, 185 Minn. 479 , .

Geisen v. Luce, 185 Minn. 479 , .

Medved v. Doolittle, 220 Minn. 352 , 19 N. W. (2d) 788 ; Geisen v. Luce, 185 Minn. 479 , .

The disabled-car provision of the statute was analyzed in the case of Geisen v. Luce, 185 Minn. 479, 483 , , where this court, before proceeding to a discussion of the relative fact claims of the parties in that case, asked the question: “Was it ‘impossible to avoid stopping and temporarily leaving such vehicle in such position?”’ This court then went on to a discussion of the application of the seco

Barrett v. Nash Finch Co. 228 Minn. 156 , 36 N. W. (2d) 526 ; Medved v. Doolittle, 220 Minn. 352 , 19 N. W. (2d) 788 ; Geisen v. Luce, 185 Minn. 479 , ; and Denson v. McDonald, 144 Minn. 252 , , cases in which the negligence of an oncoming driver was held to constitute an intervening cause sufficient to insulate the negligence of the owner of a parked car on the highway, relied upon by plaintiffs in support of their contention, are clearl

See, Geisen v. Luce, 185 Minn. 479 , 242 N.W.

Medved v. Doolittle, 220 Minn. 352 , 19 N. W. (2d) 788 ; Geisen v. Luce, 185 Minn. 479 , .

Geisen v. Luce, 185 Minn. 479 , .

Defendant argues that the statute has no application here because the bus had come to a stop, while the statute refers to overtaking a vehicle “proceeding in the same directionIt is to be noted that § 169.18 not only applies when passing a vehicle proceeding in the same direction, but, by its terms, “or at any other time.” Further, the same argument was advanced in Geisen v. Luce, 185 Minn. 479 , , where a car likewise passed to the left of *369 a parked car.

Geisen v. Luce, 185 Minn. 479 , , is not in point, because there the approaching motorist was not misled by bright lights of a standing car.

Co. 218 Minn. 532 , 16 N. W. (2d) 758 (stopping without giving proper signal); Martini v. Johnson, 204 Minn. 556 , , and Peterson v. Doll, 184 Minn. 213 , (driving more closely than is reasonable and prudent); Schmitt v. Emery, 211 Minn. 547 , 2 N. W. (2d) 413 , 139 A. L. R. 1242, and Geisen v. Luce, 185 Minn. 479

Geisen v. Luce, 185 Minn. 479 , .

The question of causal relation is one of fact for the jury and, *275 as we said in Anderson v. Johnson, 208 Minn. 377 , , “should be determined by them in the exercise of practical common sense rather than by the application of abstract principles.” The cases of Geisen v. Luce, 185 Minn. 479 , , and Hamilton v. Vare, 184 Minn. 580 , , are not in point for the reason that neither of them involved an emergency situation such as was present here.

If there was uncontradicted evidence that Schulte was asleep in the strict sense of the term, it might be argued that the rule enunciated in Geisen v. Luce, 185 Minn. 479 , , would govern the case.

Geisen v. Luce, 185 Minn. 479 , ; McGuire v. Oklahoma City Bldg.

*Page 13 Geisen v. Luce, 185 Minn. 479 , 242 N.W.

On the question of proximate cause the case is to be distinguished from Geisen v. Luce, 185 Minn. 479 , , where IJlaintiff was injured when the car in which he was riding passed a standing car in the immediate wake of another car and took to the ditch to avoid a collision with a vehicle coming from the opposite direction.

The cases are collected in Geisen v. Luce, 185 Minn. 479 , , *580 and cases there cited.

In Geisen v. Luce, 185 Minn. 479 , 242 27.

See also Geisen v. Luce, 185 Minn. 479 , .