Is the driver who intentionally crashed his car into a wall to avoid running over a child in the street entitled to seek compensation from the child's parents, who were negligent in looking after him?
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The driver does not have the right to demand compensation from the child's guardians for damage to his car resulting from his avoidance of hitting the child. This is because the child is not the direct cause or the one who brought about the damage. Even if the child were a cause, their causality would be remote. When both a direct cause and an indirect cause converge, the ruling is attributed to the direct cause.
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