Near miss earlier - partner thinks I was at fault

Nick1881 · Sunday at 22:31

I was driving earlier after coming back from shopping and had a near miss with another car.

Excuse the crude drawing. I'm the blue car, coming from the top of the picture and following the road as it turns to the right. The red is the other car, he was travelling from left to right and entering Chervil Way, as I was coming round the corner I saw him coming and thought he looked to be going a bit fast to give way, I realised he wasn't going to stop and we were going to crash to hit the brakes, luckily I wasn't going fast. He also came to a stop but was in front of me, meaning if I hadn't stopped he would most certainly have hit me. He was blaming me from his car and I said he was at fault, windows closed so he wouldn't have heard. He blocked me for a few moments before moving on. Then my partner said that I was in thew wrong, this did annoy me and caused a bit of tension between us.

So, who was in the wrong here?

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Dis86 · Sunday at 22:33

Teknobry · Sunday at 22:35

He should be giving way, he's making a right hand turn off the main road onto another road. You're just following the road round.

sx_turbo · Sunday at 22:35

Bin your partner.... Lol.

He was clearly at fault, the road he was going for is actually treated as a right turn from his direction.

Dis86 · Sunday at 22:36

Guys, no! He is wrong. The Mrs says so and she's always right. Bloody amateurs.

agw_01 · Sunday at 22:42

Went for a nosey on Google Maps, the junction is very clearly marked. Other guy was an utter muppet. Tell your Mrs a man from the Internet said so!!!

Also, going back to a street view from 2012, I wonder how those houses on the corner feel about losing that lovely bit of closed off quiet green space to make way for a major entry into a big estate. Ouch!

edit... Sorry, many typos!

agw_01 · Sunday at 22:45

Dis86 said:
Guys, no! He is wrong. The Mrs says so and she's always right. Bloody amateurs.

Stand your ground @Nick1881! Make HER sleep on the couch after an argument!

koolpc · Sunday at 22:50

The guy in the yellow car was wrong!!!

Nick1881 · Sunday at 22:50

agw_01 said:
Went for a nosey on Google Maps, the junction is very clearly marked. Other guy was an utter muppet. Tell your Mrs a man from the Internet said so!!!

Also, going back to a street view from 2012, I wonder how those houses on the corner feel about losing that lovely bit of closed off quiet green space to make way for a major entry into a big estate. Ouch!

edit... Sorry, many typos!

It's not helped, I think I'm in more trouble now.

dlockers · Sunday at 23:02

Pics of wife?

agw_01 · Sunday at 23:07

Nick1881 said:
It's not helped, I think I'm in more trouble now.

Well she's already mad at you, might as well get your moneys worth!

Mr Badger · Sunday at 23:20

Surely the fault is with whoever painted that broken white line across the main road, instead of across the side turning?

dlockers · Sunday at 23:23

Mr Badger said:
Surely the fault is with whoever painted that broken white line across the main road, instead of across the side turning?

Are you a new driver or something? Plenty of roads are like this.

Quartz · Sunday at 23:49

I blame the road designer. As the markings are laid out you are clearly in the right but I’m seeing a distinct lack of signage, just the white lines at the junction. A normal person would indeed think that straight on would be the priority route.

muon · 2025-01-06T00:07:17+0000

Depends on if the road actually has space for two cars to pass side by side (if there isn't then strictly he isn't crossing another lane). You should both have been slowing down to the blind corner and managed it more gracefully.

The red car should also be signalling right to exit the main road.

randal · 2025-01-06T00:17:23+0000

dlockers said:
Pics of wife?

Are you trying to get the Op murdered in his sleep?

LuckyBenski · 2025-01-06T00:33:48+0000

dlockers said:
Are you a new driver or something? Plenty of roads are like this.

I presumed sarcasm. But roads that have this marking do annoy me as it's quite obviously counterintuitive to the flow of the physical roads. I had one at the end of my street before and the street names even line up (meaning the marked road changes names and you "turn" to stay on the same road).

Ultimately though both cars should have been going slower and paying more attention TBH, it's an obvious risk area.

Nevakonaza · 2025-01-06T00:41:08+0000

My conclusion, Its in past who cares...no accidents everyone is fine.

shifty_uk · 2025-01-06T00:54:39+0000

Agree with the above sentiment but by the looks of things and based on what agw observed, you definitely had right of way.

Enjoy sleeping on the couch after telling the mrs everyone on the internet said she’s wrong

Mr Badger · 2025-01-06T01:06:36+0000

dlockers said:
Are you a new driver or something? Plenty of roads are like this.

LuckyBenski said:
I presumed sarcasm. But roads that have this marking do annoy me as it's quite obviously counterintuitive to the flow of the physical roads. I had one at the end of my street before and the street names even line up (meaning the marked road changes names and you "turn" to stay on the same road).

Ultimately though both cars should have been going slower and paying more attention TBH, it's an obvious risk area.

Yes, evident sense of humour failure.

If the road names on that image are accurate, it is a bit weird that there is the Long Hassocks road which turns left (North?) but also another Long Hassocks road apparently connecting to it from the right/South.