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Fender Bender

  • 11-05-2012 1:25pm
    #1
    Catxscotch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 371 ✭✭


    So I'm pulling out of a side entry to turn left. I look to my right, all clear, ease my foot off the clutch and glance left. All of a sudden a car comes swerving towards me, with a look of horror on drivers face. Car smashes into me. Driver was swerving across wrong side of road in order to turn to his left.
    No damage done to me, but the other vehicle is failrly damaged, light smashed, bumper damaged. Driver is apologetic, admits immediately they are in wrong and gets back into car. I am quite shocked and Im sorry to say relieved they didn't think it's my fault, so jump back in my vehicle and drive off.
    Was the other person completely in the wrong? I think I could be liable as I didn't look both ways, however the crash was inside my lane, meaning the other vehicle was completely in the wrong place.
    Is it only good manners to stop and exchange numbers, or was I right to just drive off?


Comments

  • #2
    whomitconcerns
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,408 ✭✭✭whomitconcerns


    well what if he took your details and reports you for dangerous driving? What if he calls the guards and says you crashed into him and drove off?


  • #3
    Catxscotch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 371 ✭✭Catxscotch


    Well I did get out and ask if the person was ok, and shook their hand. I think there are security cameras there anyway.


  • #4
    keithclancy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,208 ✭✭✭keithclancy


    Catxscotch wrote: »
    Well I did get out and ask if the person was ok, and shook their hand. I think there are security cameras there anyway.

    You have set yourself up for a right old raping.

    http://www.aaireland.ie/AA/Insurance/Car-Insurance/What-to-do-in-the-event-of-a-car-accident.aspx


  • #5
    Tigger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,705 ✭✭✭✭Tigger


    er go get a solicitor now

    you pulled out onto to a main road into the path of a car on that main road that you didn';t see?

    you need to see whats on those tapes cos that guy is going to do you and the garda could constrew that you fled the scene

    mabey i'm wrong but i don't think so


  • #6
    Bigcheeze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,858 ✭✭✭Bigcheeze


    You're in the wrong as you were entering another road when it wasn't clear to do so.


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  • #7
    Catxscotch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 371 ✭✭Catxscotch


    Sorry guys I wasn't really clear, it wasn't a main road, it was a car park. he was swinging across the main driving area to pull into a car space on the left


  • #8
    keithclancy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,208 ✭✭✭keithclancy


    Catxscotch wrote: »
    Sorry guys I wasn't really clear, it wasn't a main road, it was a car park. he was swinging across the main driving area to pull into a car space on the left

    For future reference, take photos, exchange details and then notify your insurance company.

    What happens if the other guy says you drove at him like a mad man and crashed into him while he was stopped ?

    Could be fine, but in my experience peoples memory gets very fuzzy after an accident.


  • #9
    CiniO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,069 ✭✭✭✭CiniO


    I can see two options.

    1. He really believed it was his fault, which from your decription seems it wasn't.

    2. He knew it wasn't his fault, but he didn't want to carry on with this any further as maybe he had something else to hide (no tax, no insurance, no licence, drunk, whatever).


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