Car and wife hit by another car!

DaveF327

Ivrytwr3 wrote: »

For her to get into the car herself, she would need to enter by the roadside, what's the differemce in putting a child in the back roadside?

The difference is the time factor and the risk. When you enter your car from the roadside, you use common sense and judgement watching for gaps in traffic, then get in and shut the door as quickly as you can**. When you put your darling offspring into the child seat, you have the door wide open while you strap the squirming child in with your bum sticking out, totally blind to any traffic for well over a minute. The risk of being hit by an inattentive driver (even in a cul-de-sac) is far greater when loading a child than when you're quickly getting in yourself. While I feel for you and your wife, I hope you have both learned something from this.


**(Unless you're a woman, in which case you open the door, load your bags in one by one, sit down, straighten your skirt, rummage through your handbag, brush your hair, check your make-up, put your seat belt on, then lean out and finally close the !!!!ing door.) :mad: !!!!!!!!

alwaysonthego_2

Stolen_Soul wrote: »

Are all the perfect parents going to answer the question posed in one of my previous posts?

Had this driver hit a woman and child crossing the road, because of poor observations, would the woman be to blame for daring to cross the road with a child?

Perfect parent signing in to post.

When a parent and child crosses a road they stop, look and listen unless they were unresponsible and just crossed without looking.

The op's wife is at fault!

alwaysonthego_2

Stolen_Soul wrote: »

I can do flippancy as well. Nicely avoided. Care to rethink your answer and stop being pedantic?

Had this individual hit someone and used the excuse 'well i didn't see them', who would be to blame?

Quite a simple question. Unless of course it would mean contradicting all the bull that has been spouted by England's finest parents.

So you think it is fine to put a child into the roadside to get into the car and for the car to be left open whilst traffic was going past. Schools are very busy on school pick-ups and it really doesn't matter how quite the road is usually and school time it is chaos.

alwaysonthego_2

Stolen_Soul wrote: »

In which case the car manufacturer is at fault for providing a car with doors that open out. The councils are to blame for building schools on narrow roads.

The idiot with a driving licence that is as blind as a bat is completely innocent of any wrongdoing.

Now would you care to answer the question again please? Had this individual hit someone in the road and used the excuse 'i didn't see them' who would be to blame?

The door should never have been open at the road side at the most chaotic time of the day, that is plain stupid. The individual did hit the wife but she must have had her bottom stuck out. It is something I wouldn't like to do.

photome

Stolen_Soul wrote: »

Are all the perfect parents going to answer the question posed in one of my previous posts?

Had this driver hit a woman and child crossing the road, because of poor observations, would the woman be to blame for daring to cross the road with a child?

As has been answered, there is no comparison between the two.

If the woman stopped in the road while crossing and turned her back to the traffic (as is the case when loading the child) then yes she/he must bear some responsibilty if then hit by a moving car.

alwaysonthego_2

Stolen_Soul wrote: »

Yes. I do. Because I expect car doors to open when driving down a road and am ready to take appropriate action to ensure I don't hit one. Observational skills come in really handy. What if this car had hit the drivers door while the driver was getting in?

Surely the driver should have been paying attention and opened the door when there was a gap in the traffic!

photome

Stolen_Soul wrote: »

Yes. I do. Because I expect car doors to open when driving down a road and am ready to take appropriate action to ensure I don't hit one. Observational skills come in really handy. What if this car had hit the drivers door while the driver was getting in?

Again a totally different scenario.

Not sure if it is still in the highway code, but when I was taught to drive, I was taught not to open my door in to the road until safe to do so and then not to leave it open in the face of oncoming traffic.

goldspanners

Stolen_Soul wrote: »

Yes. I do. Because I expect car doors to open when driving down a road and am ready to take appropriate action to ensure I don't hit one. Observational skills come in really handy. What if this car had hit the drivers door while the driver was getting in?

what if it was a narrow street with double parked cars?

most uk spec car are right hand drive,which means the driver enters the vehicle from the right hand side which is usually the road side,as a trained driver one of the first things you learn, even before putting on your seat belt is how to safely enter the vehicle observing any traffic on the road and choosing a suitable time to open the door,get in as quickly as possible and close the door as soon as you are in.

alwaysonthego_2

Stolen_Soul wrote: »

Or, as taught on driving lessons, the drivers of moving vehicles should be prepared for doors opening. We're not all perfect......

So I see

DrScotsman

If someone emergency stops for no good reason, it's not their fault if they get rear ended.

What the OP's wife did does seem short sighted, but that doesn't mean she is in any way to blame for the driver who should have seen her. In fact here we are all talking about how she's a terrible mother because she had the car door open for too long, when this actually means that the driver had MORE time to see the open door.