Originally Posted by
S3an
there could be a seperate court case to establish the liability side of things. It took a bus company over 2 years to admit liability for my accident. it ended up 75% 25% split. i was given 25% as i should have slowed down on the approach to the junction (just incase he pulled out in front of me) Stupid yes, you are always partly to blame in one way of the other, ie you were on your way to work and you should have slowed down approaching the junction just in case.
problem is if you slow down massively for every junction despite you having right of way, you will find in modern traffic, you slowing down will make the other driver decide to pull out on you and hence can cause accidents that way. It is not practical to drive slowly enough that you can always avoid an accident if someone jumping a give way/stop line/stop light, and nor should you have to.