F150 Accident

[Huskinhano]

Re: F150 Accident

If you hit someone from behind, you are at fault legally.

What??? what if you are behind somebody, and they slam on the brakes at a yellow light and you hit them

Everybody here was saying failure to stop would make more sense.

I usually give myself much more room than that, but I guess I didn't give myself enough

Yeah, cop asked me what happened, I said my dog distracted me for a moment

I see the problem, you're from NJ. Like me.

NJ simply sucks. Years ago my wife was broad sided in the driver's side. The driver's door was pushed in. My wife was on a main road, trying to make a left turn, had her left blinker on and proceeded to make a left turn after all on coming traffic passed. The guy at the side street, at the stop sign, made a left turn as my wife started to make her left turn. Guess what. No one got a ticket and my wife was found to be at 30% fault!

2 years ago, I had a guy who had come through a yield sign behind, behind a UPS van in the right lane while I was in the left hand lane with the right of way having just come through a green light. The UPS truck slowed up to make a right, into a parking lot. The guy behind him, who hit me, had just crossed a solid white line to get around the UPS truck, hit me in the RR. He didn't get any tickets either.

Also 2 years ago, my son was coming through a jug handle and had the green light, crossing 4 lanes of traffic. As he cleared 2 lanes, a girl driving a late model Mustang, ran the red light. He hit her in the driver's door. My son had a passenger as did she. both claimed they had the green (my son got out of his car after the accident to check to see if he had the green, it was green). The cop on the sence badgered another motorist to say my son had ran a red light and that's what he put down. The witness works where my son does and was following him. She told my son she really didn't see who had the red but the cop pressured her into saying he had the red. Wonder if the cop knew the girls in the Mustang who my son hit?

[Eagle Kammback]

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Yeah, I've done quite a few stupid things with her, and feel horrible, I put her into a ditch because I went too fast for that cheapo way of repaving roads with the loose stones on top, also hit a guard rail, and blew a trans

[Pumpkin]

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Isn't that the same truck you put in a ditch while driving too fast on wet roads or something as told at rc?

[TheSilverBuick]

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Yup, if someone slams on their brakes at pretty much any time and you hit them it's because you were following too close for the attention you were paying to the road/traffic.

The only exception I can think of (and the 18-wheeler drivers know this for sure) is if some one cuts in front of you and immediately slam on their brakes.

[Eagle Kammback]

Re: F150 Accident

If you hit someone from behind, you are at fault legally.

What??? what if you are behind somebody, and they slam on the brakes at a yellow light and you hit them

Everybody here was saying failure to stop would make more sense.

I usually give myself much more room than that, but I guess I didn't give myself enough

Yeah, cop asked me what happened, I said my dog distracted me for a moment

[yogreasygramma]

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I hate running into people too, and as I get older I try as hard as possible to avoid that. Of course, I've done it more than I'd care to admit, from being young and inexperienced, to brake fade, to brake master cylinder failure.

[dieselgeek]

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it sucks Toad, but the ticket you got is actually the least you can get (around here anyways). In all the states I've lived, if you rear end someone, you are automatically at fault - even if they are doing something stupid like backing up on the highway...

be glad it's not worse, life goes on!

[oldsman71]

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yep kinda sucks!!!!

[A/Fuel]

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If you hit someone from behind, you are at fault legally.

You're 100% right. Is there such a ticket for "failure to maintain a safe distance" ? and would it be a lesser infraction than careless driving?

[studemax]

Re: F150 Accident

If you hit someone from behind, you are at fault legally.

[67prostreet]

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The favorite ticket to give out around here is "Failure to Maintain Lane". You know it's already bad enough when you slide your vehicle off the road covered in snow and ice, injuring no one, damage to only your own vehicle, if that, but if the highway patrol see's it stuck, you're ticketed AND it qualifies as points on your record. I know a few people go to court on it and the procecutor drop the ticket before court even starts. Of course those few people I know didn't hit anything, just slid off the road, one rolled his explorer. If they hit someone/thing I'm sure it wouldn't be dropped so easily.

If they hit something you can throw in Destruction of Property.

[Blazerteam]

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Been there.Done that.Sorry to hear about it though.Its never fun to smash into others cars.Well.at least people that havent done you something ;).

[TheSilverBuick]

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The favorite ticket to give out around here is "Failure to Maintain Lane". You know it's already bad enough when you slide your vehicle off the road covered in snow and ice, injuring no one, damage to only your own vehicle, if that, but if the highway patrol see's it stuck, you're ticketed AND it qualifies as points on your record. I know a few people go to court on it and the procecutor drop the ticket before court even starts. Of course those few people I know didn't hit anything, just slid off the road, one rolled his explorer. If they hit someone/thing I'm sure it wouldn't be dropped so easily.

[A/Fuel]

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I believe there is a ticket called "unsafe speed for conditions" or something like that. Basically, you weren't going over the posted speed, but faster than you should for the conditions out......dark, iced roads, traffic....things like that. 2 points I think. It sounds like you were distracted by your dog though, and that sounds hard to prove, unless you already said something to the cop. I feel bad for ya, did you tell your parents yet, and were you able to drive it home?

[TheSilverBuick]

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Careless driving I believe is the lowest ticket they can issue you for an accident, next step down is no ticket at all. If you rear-ended some one, you were careless. Better than neglegent or reckless.