Accident Advice

[Abyss]

Was after some advice if possible please:

On the way to work this morning I was driving through the centre of a small town, and as I passed a van parked on my side of the road, an oncoming car chose to also pass and we clipped wing mirrors. I was already making the manouver when he decided to pass.

The only damage is to wingmirrors, and the glass of his popped out and was hanging away from the wingmirror. I have photographs of both his and my car.

We swapped contact details and I provided the name of my insurance company, he could not as it was a company car so I presume did not know the details.

What would you do? As yet I have not informed my insurance company.

 

[Sone]

were you over the centre line or were they?

 

[Howard]

For the sake of a wing mirror I'd leave out the insurance company. I probably wouldn't have even stopped Who had right of way? Pay him for the price of some new glass or something

 

[paradigm]

Assuming you went wide to avoid the van, and thus crossed the center of the road, you are at fault.

As said though, I wouldn't bother with insurance for a wing mirror.

 

[kaiowas]

The van was an obstruction on your side of the road therefore you are expected to give way to oncoming traffic whilst attempting to pass it.

I'd try and avoid insurance however with his being a company car you may not be able to get away with it.

 

[Sone]

The van was an obstruction on your side of the road therefore you are expected to give way to oncoming traffic whilst attempting to pass it.

I'd try and avoid insurance however with his being a company car you may not be able to get away with it.

I thought the centre line being dotted meant you had to give way, as long as he didn't cross the the line he would be okay (from a blame point of view) regardless of oncoming traffic

 

[mjt]

you were passing a parked vehicle. he had no obligation to stop, and if you crossed the line, its 100% your fault.

it's happened to be a few times, (people overtaking coming towards me) and i've never bothered to stop. my mirror was always fine so i had no complaint. couldn't car less if theirs was broken.

although once the dude turned around and started chasing me, so after a while i pulled over. he came storming out of the car, tried to open my door, he got really angry because it was locked and he then kicked my door!
i floored it, but somehow he managed to follow me down my driveway like half a mile up the road :/
i drove into the garage, went inside and **** myself. looked out and he was nowhere to be seen
pretty sure he was drunk though

i swear i saw him the next day in town, gave each other shifty looks :/

 

[ChrisJSY]

you were passing a parked vehicle. he had no obligation to stop, and if you crossed the line, its 100% your fault.

it's happened to be a few times, (people overtaking coming towards me) and i've never bothered to stop. my mirror was always fine so i had no complaint. couldn't car less if theirs was broken.

This is probably why the original poster had the problem.

In Jersey we have a lot of roads where cars park on the side, lots of stupid people who park too far out, but it's a main road and there's so much traffic.

You wait, when there's a clearence you move, once you're moving the car coming in the other direction has no excuse to.. "not stop".

You get real close to the other cars so you just take it slow, if they want to play chicken then they shouldn't be driving to be honest.



Lets play it the other way;
Car needs to cross the line to get passed a parked vehicle, if i'm too close it's my right of way.

If they have made the manuever I will take any precation to make sure we don't hit, i'm not going to be a plonker and "not stop".

>_<


Edit:
In a month i'll be left hand driving... it's going to be a little scary not being at the passing vehicle side of the car. I'll be going EVEN SLOWER!

 

[mjt]

well i say 'never'..
if there's room for 3 cars, then i might not stop, i'll probably slow down.. it depends on the situation tbh
obviously if the other car is fully on my side of the road and i can't go anywhere then of course i'll stop. won't be happy tho, i always wait until there is no one coming..

mind you this is in belgium, where driving is a ridiculously aggressive affair

and regarding the 'no excuse not to stop'. there is an excuse - you have right of way, it's their problem tbh
obviously causing an accident on purpose is one thing, but forcing them to think more carefully next time is fine

 

[Abyss]

There is no central line.

 

[Abyss]

 

[mjt]

the road seems wide enough for 3 vehicles..
even though he was a bit of a **** not to let you stop, it's your fault as you had to overtake into oncoming traffic