help! car crash

Doozergirl

What is your question exactly?

In my view, if there was someone to the right then you should have given way, not carried on with momentum. It's hardly likely that they had stopped at the junction and then managed to accelerate so hard as to hit you up the rear. They give way to the right, not to you on the left. You should have given way to the right. If you were uncertain, you should have stopped. The fact that his mum was in the car to me sounds like even if he was a boy racer, no boy in his right mind would be racing with his mum in the car?!

I don't even know how you decide you don't like someone coming from in front of you with sufficient room to clear you and then manage to hit them How is that sufficient room?

None of my business and how could I really know but if I were an underwriter reading your side of the story, it doesn't sound like a clear cut case of someone elses fault.

Nice that you were shouting at the other party bet that fixed all the damage to the cars. :rolleyes:

gordikin

You pulled out on to a roundabout and caused an accident....guess who is to blame then?

flyingscotno1

The question that occurs to me is did the OP safely join the circulating carriageway. If you looked, were moving at a speed and joined the roundabout to be hit 5m from the entrance- probably not- if it was 15m then clearly it is the other persons fault.

If the OP has completely joined the circulating carriageway and a car taking the roundabout at speed has not anticipated their speed and hit the back of the car then they are at fault.

The key point is distance from entrance to deciding liability here.

goldspanners

from the highway code:

185

When reaching the roundabout you should

• give priority to traffic approaching from your right, unless directed otherwise by signs, road markings or traffic lights
• check whether road markings allow you to enter the roundabout without giving way. If so, proceed, but still look to the right before joining
• watch out for all other road users already on the roundabout; be aware they may not be signalling correctly or at all
• look forward before moving off to make sure traffic in front has moved off

Jamie_st200

flyingscotno1 wrote: »

The question that occurs to me is did the OP safely join the circulating carriageway. If you looked, were moving at a speed and joined the roundabout to be hit 5m from the entrance- probably not- if it was 15m then clearly it is the other persons fault.

If the OP has completely joined the circulating carriageway and a car taking the roundabout at speed has not anticipated their speed and hit the back of the car then they are at fault.

The key point is distance from entrance to deciding liability here.

He didnt even hit me on the roundabout, it was on the road off of the roundabout, as i said he came flying up behind me showing off.

Jamie_st200

Doozergirl wrote: »

What is your question exactly?

In my view, if there was someone to the right then you should have given way, not carried on with momentum. It's hardly likely that they had stopped at the junction and then managed to accelerate so hard as to hit you up the rear. They give way to the right, not to you on the left. You should have given way to the right. If you were uncertain, you should have stopped. The fact that his mum was in the car to me sounds like even if he was a boy racer, no boy in his right mind would be racing with his mum in the car?!

Thats exactly what he did, he came screeching out of the junction, flat out to come up behind me.

Imagine the roundabout being a clock, i entered at 7 him at 5 say. hit me at about the time you had reached the 12 (the exit) at then end of the hand if you get me.

And as for being uncertain, no mate. I Drive that road every day off my life. He had to accelarate hard to catch me.

minnie123

you have just got to let the insurance decide - they will hear both sides of the story which we can't on here. Why should he accept liability if he thinks you were wrong. He was at his junction before you and pulled out - he would have been looking at the traffic to his right not ahead of him. I still think he was in the right.

Rolandtheroadie

minnie123 wrote: »

. He was at his junction before you and pulled out - he would have been looking at the traffic to his right not ahead of him. I still think he was in the right.

So when joining a roundabout it's ok not to look in front of you? Come on.

If he's travelled halfway round the roundabout before the collision and hit you square on the rear, I'd say it's his fault.

Doozergirl

Jamie_st200 wrote: »

Thats exactly what he did, he came screeching out of the junction, flat out to come up behind me.

Imagine the roundabout being a clock, i entered at 7 him at 5 say. hit me at about the time you had reached the 12 (the exit) at then end of the hand if you get me.

And as for being uncertain, no mate. I Drive that road every day off my life. He had to accelarate hard to catch me.

Fair enough then. But your explanation to the insurers need to read more like that than your first explanation. If genuinely came up behind you and hit you, not on the roundabout at all then you need to really consider your wording carefully. Starting the story with how you pulled onto the roundabout starts people thinking that it's a result of that.

Torby

from the revised description...defo his fault...he had to go round the roundabout to hit you...wasn't as though you pulled out and he hit you then....it could even be argued as you were already on the roundabout its his fault....he sounds like typical scrote boy racer material...the ones that approach a roundabout like a chicane ...with no intention of stopping....