Reversed on car park and hit car who's fault?

qwert_yuiop

If you backed into a stationary vehicle it can only be your fault.

iammumtoone

I think the issue you have is the car will claim they were driving out of the space saw you so stopped to avoid an accident but you kept on going into them.

To be fair the above could have been what happened, or they could have been moving into you but as you have no way of proving it it will likely go in the cars favour.

Would there have been CCTV at the car park, is it worth to see if you can get hold of any, if you can prove the other car was also moving this might help but only if your insurance company thinks it worth fighting.

Norman_Castle

s92 wrote: »

.does the vehicles on the road part not have right of way over vehicles in spaces? thanks for the help

There are no rights of way in car parks. There are spaces with lanes between them for access.

Its assumed and generally accepted that cars in the lanes have precedence but that doesn't excuse driving into another car.

Retrogamer

It sounds like your fault as you drove into the side of the car that pulled out, and not the other way around. That means they were already out when you drove into them.

Insurance might view it differently though.

This is why i always suggest looking out the rear windows when reversing rather than the mirrors. You can't look at all 3 mirrors simultaneously

MBdriver

It's obviously not clear cut who was at fault, and even if you "know" one way or the other, actually proving it with insurance companies will take up your whole life for months to come. As for CCTV footage, nice idea in theory. The UK is the most heavily filmed nation on earth. But did you ever *try* to get hold of footage to help your cause? I have, but failed. And I won't waste time on it again! So, if insurance is no help, what else is there?

Can I suggest the most pragmatic way forward is just to offer to pay for the damage ? It sounds like it will be in the region of about £300 or so, depending on what bodyshops in your area charge. Ask the lady to get three reasonable quotes and you will pay the lowest.

Then you will make the lady feel good because *she* hasn't had to deal with her insurance company and lose her no claims, *you* will feel food for the same reason, PLUS you will feel even better knowing you've been a gentleman and done the right thing, PLUS you can all get on with your lives and not have to pay out increased insurance premiums for the next 5 years. For just a few hundred quid I reckon that's good value for money, which is, after all, what this forum is all about ;o)

s92

I offered to pay for the repair and a friend owns a paint shop so offered to get him to do it but not sure if they will go through insurance just needed to know where I stand if they do

Pelepeg

Having been 'the other car' (not in this particular incident, I hasten to add), I will categorically say it is your fault, however my insurers were lazy so and so's who didn't bother trying to get CCTV or anything else to help me, and agreed with the other insurers that it was a 50/50 fault. I am still fuming 3 years later as I have to put it on all new insurance quotes as me being at fault, which I wasn't.
So, you may be lucky and get a 50/50 claim. :mad::mad::mad:

teddysmum

You shouldn't be reversing a vehicle with a large blind spot,without help from someone else, as it's not safe to do so.

You could have driven forwards, 'round the block', to avoid this risky manoeuvre, which could have involved injuring a child on foot.


A tv programme highlighted the rear blind spots on some 4X4s , showing, with dummies in a queue ,how the first three toddlers would be out of sight and so run over in a reversing incident and , perhaps, this is why many now have reversing cameras with audible warning of obstacles.