(UK solely pls) RTA (Road Traffic Accident) - who's at slate ?
Question: Ok imagine you are contained by your car on a sideroad, at a T-junction to a busy main road.
You want to turn right across that fundamental road but its a busy road.
There is traffic coming from your immediate right. There is also traffic coming from across the biggest road down the left.
You sit waiting at the fork to the main road for a long time and can't receive out.
Eventually the traffic from the right eases up... and a big period appears with no traffic from the right for fairly a long distance.
So you decide to verbs out and half block the road... waiting for a modern gap within traffic on your left to appear, or to be flashed out by a considerate driver, so you can complete your right turn on to the biggest road.
However whilst you are sat stationery surrounded by your car.. waiting for the hiatus to appear on the left side. a sports car from the right side doesn't slow down... (despite you having blocked up the road for former times 20 seconds) and just ploughs contained by to you for a big smash.
Which driver/car is at fault ?!
Answers:
From the highway code:
147: You MUST stop down the line at a T-junction with a 'Stop' sign and a solid white row across the road. Wait for a safe perforation in the traffic back you move off.
Laws RTA 1988 party 36 & TSRGD regs 10 & 16
148: The approach to a junction may own a 'Give Way' sign or a triangle marked doing a tour. You MUST give track to traffic on the main road when emerging from a intersection with broken white lines across the road.
Laws RTA 1988 faction 36 & TSRGD regs 10(1), reg 16(1) & 25
My interpretation says that even if the other motor was driving short due care and attention, the motor stationary in the middle of the road should not assume a outlet or courteous driver will appear but wait at the roundabout until it is safe to turn.
You are mate for sitting within the middle of the road! No challange atall on that one im afraid.
I would say the driverwho ploughed into you, he be obviously man careless and not fascinated and driving dngerously, that's my oppinion, sorry if it's not the right one.
The stationary car is at culpability. If you were turning onto a principal road then in attendance would have be a give course sign on the junction to describe you to give process to the traffic on the main road, also, pulling out across a busy lane and cause a traffic obstruction (though profoundly of people do it) is against the rules. Admitted the other driver should hold slowed down, but you shouldn't have be there surrounded by the first place.
Both. 50/50. He has to accept some responsibility as he should have see you if he was driving beside due care and consideration. You enjoy no right, in canon, to obstruct a highway.
My thought is that its the driver that hit you. For a start, it seem like they would be guilty of driving in need due care and attention (or doesn`t matter what that offence is call these days), and secondly it would seem questionable how an fluke could be 100% the fault of the individual in charge of a stationary vehicle! I guess its up to the insurance companies to argue out, and I guess they may read aloud that each driver should embezzle a portion of the blame.
it would be your fault for blocking the road ,althoug the other driver could enjoy sloewd down thay would of see you but you would still get the blame
It's 50/50 similar to someone has already said. You should not hold been in that but, seeing as you were the other driver should enjoy seen you and be prepared to slow down and stop.
My first instinct would be to say the other driver, as he should be travelling at such a speed as to be capable of stop short of any obstruction, as far as the road can be see to be clear, plus he wasn't paying attention.
However, be it dark or poor visibility? He/she could argue that because you be side on, your lights could not be seen.
Next time, although it wasn't really your glitch, you could turn left, next turn right at the next intersection (or go round the subsequent roundabout), so you'd only hold to cross one carriageway at a time.
If your car be stationary then regardless of what happen its the fault of the other driver!
You enjoy to be able to stop contained by the visible clear road ahead and you must approach junction with watchfulness!
Anything else is driving without due keeping and attention!
Your insurance company will probably stiff you anyway but your in the right!
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