Direct line wrogly accepted liabilty on my behalf.

glentoran99

maisie_cat wrote: »

The OP said he was stationery, probably in the road trying to turn right in a place that it's impossible to do in one move, particularly in cities.
It happened to me 20 years ago in a notorious junction in Wimbledon. It was also Direct Line and they did the same thing. In my case I had to pull forward to allow a car that wanted to turn left (cars parked on both sides of the road I was exiting) otherwise the area would have ground to a halt! I was stationery and a BMW just drove into my side because he couldn't see me round the car turning left.
In my case they also sent a loss adjuster to the scene except he went on a Sunday when the cars were not parked on both sides of the road.
I was annoyed because I'd been with DL since they started but I got on with my life and have not been insured with them since even if they are the cheapest.

Phrased wrong, but it sounds like the OP was pulled out too far into the lane

glentoran99

Ikki1 wrote: »

It was a traffic light junction box. Both his and my traffic light was green but as i was turning right, i waited in the junction box towards the middle. His car hit the front left corner of my car. On his car the damage was on the front right half side of his car.

So the front left of your car was in the road with oncoming traffic?


Sorry this does not sound as simple as the other person was at fault

glentoran99

if he was in the middle of two lanes, 1 to turn right and 1 to go straight and he hit you, you were at least half way over his right turning lane? is that correct?

glentoran99

glentoran99

Crude drawing, is that correct OP. you in red, the car that hit you in green?

Tigsteroonie

Other posters have posted what I was thinking - if the third party was straddling the two lanes coming down but the OP was still hit, this suggests the OP's car was no longer waiting in their own carriageway to turn but was instead waiting on the other carriageway.

The third party car that was straddling two lanes - were they perhaps changing lane from left (before junction) to right (after junction), so not actually driving in both lanes but crossing from one the other?

Ikki1

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This is a really quick drawing i did on my phone. My car was slightly turned but not in third partys lane. I was in the oncoming traffics turning right lane. I was not obstructig oncoming traffic going straight or turning.

glentoran99

glentoran99

You were in a lane you shouldn't have been in, you were blocking a lane of oncoming traffic. Your car should have been parallel to the traffic island straight ahead, not turned into the oncoming traffic, I can see why directline have not accepted non fault

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