Mrs had a car accident

elrasho

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elrasho

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This is what happened and what she wrote to the Insurance Company:

'As I approached the junction of the dual carriage way the van was in the right hand side of the lane behind me. As I was going to turn left I indicated left and pulled up to the left of the van. As I checked to see if the road was clear to pull out, the van also pulled to his left and hit my vehicle. The impact was on the drivers side door of my vehicle and on the front left wing of their van. The van driver proceeded to reverse back causing even more damage as his van scratched along both right hand side doors.

This accident was purely the van drivers fault for the following reasons:

· The van was in the right hand side of the lane which means the drive either wanted to go straight on or maybe turn right

· The van driver did not see me even though he was behind me and in a higher up position

· The van didn't indicate to turn left at any point

· The van driver did not see me causing the accident

For these reasons the van driver is at 100% fault for this accident. Attached to this write up is a diagram showing where the vehicles were at the time of the accident.

After the accident the van driver admitted his van went into my car'

Here's a diagram I made in Paint



Mrs rang the van driver this morning and he's changed is story saying she cut in on his left hand side and is claiming against her! Surley it's his fault right.
 
Yes a couple of people at the time walking by but a the time she didn't get their details as she was in a rush to get to work (I know bad move right).

But my looking at the damage you can see he went into her and his theory of her cutting in is bs, everyone who drives always goes slightly to the left or slightly to the right at the end of the road to show where your intending to turn, this van driver didn't even have his indicator on!
 
elrasho said:
· The van was in the right hand side of the lane which means the drive either wanted to go straight on or maybe turn right
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From the diagram there is no straight, also if you want to go straight you stay left unless there is a lane for straight specifically. Only time you'd keep right to go straight is if there's no right turn. Also looks like there's a massive central reservation, so no way to turn right.

Draw better diagram. Or use Google maps.
 
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asim18 said:
From the diagram there is no straight, also if you want to go straight you stay left unless there is a lane for straight specifically. Only time you'd keep right to go straight is if there's no right turn. Also looks like there's a massive central reservation, so no way to turn right.

Draw better diagram. Or use Google maps.
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Although Google Maps doesn't show how wide the road my Mrs and the van driver were on is.

[FnG]magnolia;25310192 said:
50/50 outcome I'd guess, given the "he said, she said" nature of the story.
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If it comes down to that Mrs will take them to court, she'll represent herself.
 
asim18 said:
From the diagram there is no straight, also if you want to go straight you stay left unless there is a lane for straight specifically. Only time you'd keep right to go straight is if there's no right turn. Also looks like there's a massive central reservation, so no way to turn right.

Draw better diagram. Or use Google maps.
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This.

Although in theory that would correlate your partner's story (van driver intended to turn right, realised he couldn't, and so pulled to the left).
 
From the satellite picture and the diagram you've drawn, it looks to me that she is culpable. She should not have moved past him to turn left if he wasn't indicating, because his intentions were unclear.

That said the thread was largely about him changing his story...well it's going to be "he said, she said" etc isn't it.
 
Can you turn right at that junction..the middle filter lanes would seem to indicate you can't.

It even seems going 'straight on' means pulling out left to get into the middle filter lane.

Tricky one...and is seeming a little more 50-50 to me than off the initial description where it seemed the Vans fault.
 
elrasho said:
'As I approached the junction of the dual carriage way the van was in the right hand side of the lane behind me. As I was going to turn left I indicated left and pulled up to the left of the van.
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This bit makes no sense to me, was the van behind her or in front of her?

I'd say 50/50 at best, the satellite image does your wife no favours in my opinion, if he wasn't indicating regardless of his road position your wife shouldn't have assumed he was turning right. Even if he was planning to go straight, he's have to go left to then move to turn right across the carriageway.
 
'As I approached the junction of the dual carriage way the van was in the right hand side of the lane behind me. As I was going to turn left I indicated left and pulled up to the left of the van. As I checked to see if the road was clear to pull out, the van also pulled to his left and hit my vehicle. The impact was on the drivers side door of my vehicle and on the front left wing of their van. The van driver proceeded to reverse back causing even more damage as his van scratched along both right hand side doors.
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So wait.

As you were approaching the junction, the van was behind you to the right. Right?

So then how did you "pull up to the left of the van"? Surely the van pulled up to your right if you were at the junction first?


If the van was in front he was obviously aiming to take the turn wide so as not to kerb the rear left wheel while coming out. Also dual carriageway so wanted more speed with a wide turn than a slow tight turn. Isn't learning that long vehicles stay right even when turning left part of the theory test?
 
elrasho said:
Everyone does this though, I've seen people do it and I do it myself. It's one of those common things people do.
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Just because people do it doesn't make it the correct behaviour and that is what the insurance company will go on. It's like how you shouldn't flash your lights when letting a car out - we all do it to let them know, but if you're hit my somebody who has done it to you, you'd be at fault.
 
asim18 said:
So wait.

As you were approaching the junction, the van was behind you to the right. Right?

So then how did you "pull up to the left of the van"? Surely the van pulled up to your right if you were at the junction first?


If the van was in front he was obviously aiming to take the turn wide so as not to kerb the rear left wheel while coming out. Isn't learning that long vehicles stay right even when turning left part of the theory test?
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The Van driver was to the right of the lane but not quite at the junction, as though he had suddenly stopped. Mrs drove past him and stayed to the left of the lane indicating left. So the at this point the Van driver is behind her to the right, like in the picture I drew.
 
That looks like only 1 lane, and it doesn't matter if everyone does it - it doesn't make it right.

I'd say your mrs was at fault.
 
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