Involved in a car crash today. Am I at fault?

shaun_from_Africa

niharika wrote: »

How do I post up pictures here please?

As a new member, you can't.


What you will have to do is to put the pictures on a photo hosting site (such as photobox) and then put the link on here.
As a newbie, you can't post links that actually work but what you can do it to leave spaces in the link address (such as www. photo box.com).
Once you've done this, someone else can post the corrected link for you.

niharika

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Retrogamer

niharika wrote: »

I don't think that changes the circumstances because my car was in the same position (edged out) and stationary before I saw the other party in my wing mirror. Surely this suggests that the other driver must have seen me well before I saw him in my wing mirror and that he took a chance.

From your information here, you would have been stopped for 1-2 seconds at most after edging out when he hit you.
That's not a long of time to react.

If he would have seen you edging out before you stopped you should also have seen him before you edged out.

Quentin

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Retrogamer

straighttalker

If you're fully comp, pay your excess if you have one and get your insurer to repair the damage and take the hit.

If you're so adamant you're not at fault, go see if your legal expense insurer or a no win, no fee solicitor will take your claim on. They won't. They only take on claims with an over 50% prospect of success.

I can't see how the damage to the Vauxhall can be translated in any way other than that you were moving out of your parked position whilst it was driving past. It's highly unlikely that the driver could squeeze the front of his car through the gap without damaging the front first if you were stationary.

niharika

straighttalker wrote: »

If you're fully comp, pay your excess if you have one and get your insurer to repair the damage and take the hit.

If you're so adamant you're not at fault, go see if your legal expense insurer or a no win, no fee solicitor will take your claim on. They won't. They only take on claims with an over 50% prospect of success.

I can't see how the damage to the Vauxhall can be translated in any way other than that you were moving out of your parked position whilst it was driving past. It's highly unlikely that the driver could squeeze the front of his car through the gap without damaging the front first if you were stationary.

Like I said, the reason the front door didn't collide was because his front left bumper smacked my tyre and that is the reason why my alignment is totally out. He then must have tried steering slightly to the right and his rear door hit my bumper.

DUTR

niharika wrote: »

Like I said, the reason the front door didn't collide was because his front left bumper smacked my tyre and that is the reason why my alignment is totally out. He then must have tried steering slightly to the right and his rear door hit my bumper.

As you must realise, none of the readers here are the underwriters for your car insurance, it's not the readers you have to somehow convince.

Looking at the pics, it seems to reinforce the fact that if the Vectra was driving past, then a vehicle has driven into the nearside rear of the vehicle as it was passing.

Silver-Surfer_2

niharika wrote: »

Like I said, the reason the front door didn't collide was because his front left bumper smacked my tyre and that is the reason why my alignment is totally out. He then must have tried steering slightly to the right and his rear door hit my bumper.

What make/model is your car?

bigjl

niharika wrote: »

Like I said, the reason the front door didn't collide was because his front left bumper smacked my tyre and that is the reason why my alignment is totally out. He then must have tried steering slightly to the right and his rear door hit my bumper.

If the front tyre had hit your front wheel it would also have hit your front bumper, there would also be damage to the other cars bumper.

That damage looks to be a scrape, and of fairly uniform depth, which would infer that the Vectra was driving in a straight line.

You pulled out into the flow of traffic, as soon as you saw a car coming you should have pulled back into your space.

You didn't do that therefore you are at fault.

And it is more likely that the alignment issue was caused with the impact with the left rear of the Vectra.