On a cold winter day, A slipped on the icy sidewalk at the entrance to B's shop. A injured her ankle as a result of the fall, and B hired a taxi to have her taken to the hospital to have her injured ankle examined. On the way to the hospital another automobile collided with the taxi, and A was seriously injured. The injured ankle was the proximate cause of A's more serious injury in the automobile accident, because B had hired the taxi to send her to the hospital.

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The proximate cause of A's more serious injury in the automobile accident was the collision with another automobile, not the injured ankle. The ankle injury led to the decision to transport A to the hospital, but the direct cause of the more serious injury was the subsequent automobile accident.

On a Cold Winter Day, a Slipped on the Icy