Minor Car Accident : Who was at fault?

brianposter

Car_54 said:

brianposter said:

People are responsible for their own driving. If you cause an accident by flashing your lights to let someone through the norm is that the legal responsibility lies with those who suffered the accident, not with whoever was the originating problem.

Same applies here, car B has failed to allow sufficient space to car A.

Is there an obligation to allow space for drivers to overtake on the left?

Have you confused A and B ?

force_ten

brianposter said:

People are responsible for their own driving. If you cause an accident by flashing your lights to let someone through the norm is that the legal responsibility lies with those who suffered the accident, not with whoever was the originating problem.

Same applies here, car B has failed to allow sufficient space to car A.

car A has not followed rule 268 of the highway code 

Rule 268

Do not overtake on the left or move to a lane on your left to overtake. In congested conditions, where adjacent lanes of traffic are moving at similar speeds, traffic in left-hand lanes may sometimes be moving faster than traffic to the right. In these conditions you may keep up with the traffic in your lane even if this means passing traffic in the lane to your right. Do not weave in and out of lanes to overtake.

brianposter

aogra said:

- Car A and car B are on the left lane, car B behind car A.

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boobyd

Both show the normal poor driving encountered now.
A. No awareness,does think the cars might turn right,doesn't use mirrors,doesn't think where did that car go

B.Impatient,jump a couple of places,doesnt anticipate
Etc,etc

Car_54

brianposter said:

Car_54 said:

brianposter said:

People are responsible for their own driving. If you cause an accident by flashing your lights to let someone through the norm is that the legal responsibility lies with those who suffered the accident, not with whoever was the originating problem.

Same applies here, car B has failed to allow sufficient space to car A.

Is there an obligation to allow space for drivers to overtake on the left?

Have you confused A and B ?

Probably. Losing the will to live after five pages of this ...

caprikid1

Feels like poor driving from both to be honest, it was obvious from the way it was written that the driver was A.

For me it's A who is at fault, as he has attempted a manoeuvre when it was not clear to do so, there was now a car in the space he occupied. Not sure why he indicated (If he did) but did not look, from what I can read car B was at least along side if not in front by this time.

Car A was making a pointless  manoeuvre, car B should have predicted one idiot manoeuvre will be followed by another !.

aogra

Thanks all for the feedback, greatly appreciate it! I think we can lay this subject to rest