Car accident - who's fault is it?

tinkerbell84

chab1990 wrote: »

ive just pasted it in. dunno if its working

you need to use photobucket or tinypic to post pictures on here

tinkerbell84

chab1990 wrote: »

hold on, so you're saying that you would just swerve around them in a small road. what if a motorcyslist was on the other side of the road. oh "i'll just knock the motorcyclist over, at least ive passed the hazard......"

then you'd see it because it would have its lights on and you wouldn't overtake the kids till the bike had gone past!!

Keith

chab1990 wrote: »

also would you overtake 15 metres before a bend?

A 206 is 3.8m in length.

Was he overtaking you? Or do you mean that he overtook the children 15m before the bend.

chab1990

like i said before he was speeding. i looked behind me, no one was there apart from the teens who were crossing the road. he sped around them fast and as i was on the road, he joined me and we collided.

it happened really fast. i always make sure there is no one and im not a fast driver. also he said the words, Im so sorry, its just that i was trying to swerve out of the way of those f*cking idiots. then later on he said "i dont doubt that you were signalling. which means that he wasnt even paying attention as he was too busy swerving around them.

chab1990

Keith wrote: »

A 206 is 3.8m in length.

Was he overtaking you? Or do you mean that he overtook the children 15m before the bend.

over taking the children 15 m before the bend

chab1990

tinkerbell84 wrote: »

then you'd see it because it would have its lights on and you wouldn't overtake the kids till the bike had gone past!!

and wat if some one was speedin round the bend. the amount of length it takes to go around a big group of kids and then go back into your lane... we litereally five metres before the bend when he hit me!

tinkerbell84

chab1990 wrote: »

like i said before he was speeding. i looked behind me, no one was there apart from the teens who were crossing the road. he sped around them fast and as i was on the road, he joined me and we collided.

it happened really fast. i always make sure there is no one and im not a fast driver. also he said the words, Im so sorry, its just that i was trying to swerve out of the way of those f*cking idiots. then later on he said "i dont doubt that you were signalling. which means that he wasnt even paying attention as he was too busy swerving around them.

you said he was doing 25-30mph

that isn't a 20 mph road.

there are mini roundabouts not far from where you were - that would have been the place to turn around.

tinkerbell84

chab1990 wrote: »

and wat if some one was speedin round the bend. the amount of length it takes to go around a big group of kids and then go back into your lane... we litereally five metres before the bend when he hit me!

you shouldn't have been across the road 5 metres before the bend!!!! :mad:

Keith

So you had time to zap him with a speedgun to see his speed, and still pulled out on him?

Do you accept that your actions of pulling into the road, caused the accident? The legal test is a but for test, but for your actions would the accident have happened?

tifnstav

you said earlier in your post that he was going 25 to 30, now he is speeding.
also, you said that you collided into the sides of each other, now he has hit you.

if you hit each other in the side then surely you are both at fault - how would you turn and hit the side of his vehicle without seeing it?
He'd have to have been doing a lot more than 30 (which i doubt on the inconsistencies so far) to sneak up on you like that.

and can you confirm which side of the road he was on - was it the other carriageway or half and half?