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I saw a lot of this when I lived in North Vancouver.
With all the hills and people in a rush it was a common thing.
After talking to a number of people who had this happen to them, ICBC said it was the car behind found at fault.
I rang up ICBC and asked about this as I lived on a large hill and was curious. The person I spoke to said that a good rule is, when you come to a top behind another vehicle you should be able to see its tires meeting the road. In most cases this would leave ample room between you and the car in front and allow for roll back of the vehicle in front of you.
A not to those who recommend using the E-brake. This is common practice in most any vehicle I have driven (until I figure out how it handles the hills and such) but one thing I have seen more and more of if the electric e-brakes. With systems like this there is no way to use the e-brake to stop the roll back. Also, any vehicle equipped with a foot operated parking brake is very hard to do this with (but can be done with some ninja moves).
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