Was It The White Car At Fault For This Crash?

[Jahulaye]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5118387/Shocking-footage-shows-three-vehicles-career-road.html

The small appears to be blaming the black car but it’s the white car that attempts to overtake the van obviously without looking in the mirrors hitting the black car and causing the crash, whose fault was it?

[-Talbot-]

It's a common situation.

Mr/Mrs N. ervous gets too close to a slow vehicle in front of them, they keep looking for a decent stretch of clear road so they can overtake (missing about half a dozen opportunities) They get that focussed on waiting for the worlds longest bit of straight road with no oncoming vehicles that they forget to look behind them when making their move and unfortunately on this occasion ... BOOM!

[albaqwerty]

No-one blaming NK or Russia yet? :-D

mirror, signal and maneouvre if safe to do so always stood me in good stead.

[ToraToraTora]

the black car is well past the camera car before the white car pulls out.

[mikey4444]

The white car pulled out to overtake, and obviously didn't use its mirrors. I am not sure why you think this is in any doubt Jahulaye ?

[Old_Geezer]

IMO it should depend on the speed involved. If all at driving at normal speed then the white car should have noticed that it wasn't safe to pull out. But if the black car was charging down like a maniac it can be argued that it would have seemed far enough away to not be considered a danger, and that it's excess speed, resulting in it reaching the others, was the cause.

[mikey4444]

I can't see that the white car was using its indicators either.

[-Talbot-]

EDDIE sees summat different to me in the video and mikey sees summat different to me on the thread.


Is it me?

[dannyk13]

OG, if the black car was travelling at an excessive speed surely the driver of the white car would have noticed how fast he was approaching, if he had use his mirrors.

[mikey4444]

Danny....seems like common sense to me !

[jno]

I don't see where the Mail's blaming the black car?

[Old_Geezer]

No. One could see someone in the distance and note they won't reach you, but then they do.

[sapelesam]

I think ED should do a poll. Two boxes to tick. Box one. White car to blame. Box two. I'm blind.

[Old_Geezer]

The title combined with the black car being identified as the overtaking car, jno.

[dannyk13]

OG< sorry but if I saw a car approaching me in my rear view mirror I would know approximately how soon he would be upon me,

[Mamyalynne]

This thread is almost as funny as the Russian and the Rat door thread.

[Baldric]

Folks keep referring to the white car driver as 'he' if you read the link you would see it was 'she'

[jno]

I thought that was pretty factual, OG, it certainly collided with the white car, but that doesn't mean it was at fault?

I might think otherwise if I was driving the black car, I suppose.

[Old_Geezer]

Even if Mike Ashcroft's car blocked your view of it ?

Anyway, let the insurance companies work it out.

[jno]

good point, baldric, once you know that you don't even have to know the colour of the car, let alone watch the video, to know whose fault it was.

[-Talbot-]

If you had looked in the mirror, the speed of the black car would be irrelevant ... it was already in the lane it needed to be to overtake, so any sensible/good/alert/half-decent driver would not have pulled out.