No Duty Owed For Death Resulting From Placement Of Gas Meter.

Parents sued Southern California Gas Company for wrongful death when their daughter died after driving her car off a street, over a curb and striking an SCG gas meter located 11 feet, 4 inches beyond the curb.  The Court of Appeal reversed judgment for plaintiffs, concluding it was not reasonably foreseeable that SGC’s installation of the gas meter a substantial distance away from the curb on a street with a 25-mile-per-hour speed limit would cause the general type of harmful event in this case.  Gonzalez v. Southern California Gas Company  (Cal. App. Fourth Dist., Div. 1;  December 13, 2011) 201 Cal.App.4^th 1233.