Armchair traffic lawyers, who's @ fault?

[Pliablemoose]

Backing out of parking area @ Sam's today, the one way herringbone parking, someone waiting for my place stops, woman drives up from the other direction (wrong way to park in rt or lt lanes, stops & I nudge her with my lt rear bumper, denting her driver's side rear door🙁 (just smudged my rear bumper, have I mentioned I love owning a truck?)

Am I @ fault for unsafe backing?

Or is she @ fault for driving/stopping the wrong way & begging me to back into her?

 

[Vic]

Tough one, but my opinion is that she is at fault for going the wrong way.

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

I'm a little confused by your description, but I tend to think that since the other car was stopped, and you were backing, you are probably at fault. I would try to keep the insurance companies out of this one and pay for her repairs out of pocket, as long as you are sure there's no possibility of any injuries, which it sounds like there isn't, and she is reasonable to deal with. If she seems squirrelly in any way, you can and should get the insurance folks involved, though.

 

[RossMAN]

I recently had a fender bender and it's no fun!

 

[Vette73]

Has happened before to people I know and it has always been the person pulling out of the spaces fault. You might be able to argue and just have each person cover their own car, that would be the best bet to play right now.

If you fight to hard I expect you to have to pay for both cars, so play it safe.

 

[johnjbruin]

if angled parking and she was goign the wrong way then i think you are ok.

 

[Pliablemoose]

I had to look carefully to make sure my dent was new, her car was beat to crap, I suspect they won't report it, I was going ~0.1 mph, have wife as a witness...

 

[911paramedic]

Lets say you were leaving a driveway onto a one way street (traffic flows from left to right). You look left to make sure no traffic is coming and pull out, only to get hit head on by somebody going the wrong way. You used due caution looking in the direction traffic is supposed to be flowing, therefore the wrong way driver is at fault.

Same here.

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

Originally posted by: 911paramedic
Lets say you were leaving a driveway onto a one way street (traffic flows from left to right). You look left to make sure no traffic is coming and pull out, only to get hit head on by somebody going the wrong way. You used due caution looking in the direction traffic is supposed to be flowing, therefore the wrong way driver is at fault.

Same here.

The difference, though, is that in your hypothetical the other car is still moving, whereas in this instance it was apparently stopped. I'm still a little confused by the actual layout of this scenario, but I am preliminarily thinking the OP was at fault.

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

Originally posted by: Pliablemoose
I had to look carefully to make sure my dent was new, her car was beat to crap, I suspect they won't report it, I was going ~0.1 mph, have wife as a witness...

first of sorry to hear about this crap probably ruining your day.

would like some more info though on what actually occured.... what happened after the accident? cops involved or was just information exchanged?

 

[GroundZero]

Originally posted by: Pliablemoose
I had to look carefully to make sure my dent was new, her car was beat to crap, I suspect they won't report it, I was going ~0.1 mph, have wife as a witness...

witness must be someone not involved irrc. ie. someone not in one of the cars.
also around here most times a fender bender in a parkinglot results in each person fixing their own car.
it's been along time ,but i had a kid pull in front of me in a parking lot and when all was said and done he had to fix his own car even though i whacked his drivers door. i didn't do crap to my car so i didn't have to fix it but if it had been damaged then i would have had to fix it .

 

[Lyfer]

She was driving the wrong way, SHE was at fault. You need to call her and tell her B!tch, your owned, pay up now!






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