I got hit by a lorry, whose fault is it?

Mr.Generous

If only you had one of Bedsit Bob's excellent dash cameras, front and rear view would be pretty conclusive. £36 well spent IMO.

System

Strider590 wrote: »

2) OP overtook truck but had to slow for traffic, truck driver didn't want to let OP "merge in turn", he accelerated and drove into OP.

It was a left hand drive truck. Chances are that the driver didn't even see the OP because they were in his blind spot. But lets not let facts get in the way of anything, you usually don't.

AdrianC

Tarambor wrote: »

It was a left hand drive truck. Chances are that the driver didn't even see the OP because they were in his blind spot. But lets not let facts get in the way of anything, you usually don't.

A tad rich.

Tell you what, why don't you have a little think about where the blind spots for the driver of a LHD truck might be, how they might be the mirror image of those in a RHD truck, and how an entire car which is apparently diagonal across two lanes fully ahead of the truck might possibly disappear in them...

Draw a little diagram if it helps.

Or look at this video of the driver's-eye view from a truck.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq8xovo2Am4

The traffic lights at 1:42 give a good indication of how a car might be visible even in that "blind spot"

happyc84

OP cuts up a HGV, then wonders why he gets hit up the rear.

Well at least the roads are safer now.

silverwhistle

The rules of the road for ship navigation are useful here. The lorry was the stand-on vessel and was probably doing a constant speed. It was incumbent on you to avoid it by (probably) tucking in behind it rather than relying on it to brake for you.

You may possibly have "merged ahead of him", but what that implies is difficult to tell, like complaining about a car hitting you as a pedestrian when you stepped out into the road and got to that bit of the road before the car did.

debtdebt

facade wrote: »

That is a bit unfair- what ambulance chaser is going to work hard trying to take on a foreign registered lorry that is now in a different country, if not continent?

Just claim off your own insurance and don't worry about the "at fault" claim, it would have gone down as "at fault" in any case if the other driver has disappeared, no matter whose "fault" it is.

The true test of the validity of any claim is to take it to an ambulance chaser. They will only take it on if they think they have a better than 50% chance of successfully pursuing a claim.

If it's an EU foreign lorry, the ambulance chasers can present a claim to the MIB under the Green Card Scheme and the MIB will act as a broker on behalf of the foreign insurer.

GwylimT

Tarambor wrote: »

It was a left hand drive truck. Chances are that the driver didn't even see the OP because they were in his blind spot. But lets not let facts get in the way of anything, you usually don't.

The placement of the drivers seat does not cause any blind spot in front of the vehicle.

facade

debtdebt wrote: »

If it's an EU foreign lorry, the ambulance chasers can present a claim to the MIB under the Green Card Scheme and the MIB will act as a broker on behalf of the foreign insurer.

I didn't think the MIB will help if there is any insurance in place to cover it already- e.g. the OP is fully comp.

Paradigm

GwylimT wrote: »

The placement of the drivers seat does not cause any blind spot in front of the vehicle.

I think you'll find that there is a blind spot directly in front of the passenger side of a HGV. That's why all trucks now have "look down" mirrors fitted on that side.

AdrianC

Paradigm wrote: »

I think you'll find that there is a blind spot directly in front of the passenger side of a HGV. That's why all trucks now have "look down" mirrors fitted on that side.

Yes, there is. But not big enough to lose a car in.