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Originally Posted by RickFLM4
This. If she had landed on the SUV and killed its driver, it would primarily be her fault for hitting the gas but no one expects a car to fall from a parking garage when driving by. Seems like the garage requires inspection and / or code requires review. This shouldn't happen for the safety of people on the ground as much as for an idiot driver doing something stupid. Fortunately in this case, she survived and didn't land on the SUV.
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If she had landed on the SUV I believe the garage operator and she would be jointly and severally liable. Her "share" would be probably 80%, but to the extent she or her insurance company could not pay for all of the damages (such as a catastrophic paralysis suffered by the driver of the SUV), the garage operator and its insurance company would have to step up.
Everybody was lucky in this situation - the woman who crashed, the driver of the SUV and the garage operator.