Car Accident Advice (Both Drivers Sun Blinded - Who Is at Fault?)

Lpreddye on 15/08/2019 - 16:57
Last edited 16/08/2019 - 10:40 by 1 other user

I was stopped at a give way sign and proceeded through the intersection because there were no cars to give way to. Because of the shape of the road I needed to go through at about 15-20km, after I was halfway through the intersection I got sun blinded.

Just after that another car collided with mine at the passenger front corner (they came from my left side), both vehicles are now are wright off. The other driver admitted she was also sun blind. There are no Tyre marks on the road to show she had attempted to stop at all and I think she had to be speeding to hit me as hard as she did but can't prove it. When I looked at her licence she lived 10 houses down the street so she had just left her driveway so that would be why I didn't see her when I was checking the intersection.

Who is at fault?

Accident Intersection

Automotive

Comments

  • Jalif on 16/08/2019 - 08:41
    +2

    If you failed to give way, it's 100% you.

  • Caped Baldy on 16/08/2019 - 09:04
    +3

    15-20km is a big intersection.

    MS paint drawing please or google maps location!

    • Yummy on 16/08/2019 - 09:48
      +4

      Map in dropbox link just a few posts above.

      Nevermind big intersection. It must a huge sun and OP likes to stare at it. F all incoming traffic from the left.

      • Caped Baldy on 16/08/2019 - 09:56
        +2

        Cheers, I must be blind like OP

        • Yummy on 16/08/2019 - 12:53
          +3

          This thread is just too bright for us all.

          • HighAndDry on 16/08/2019 - 13:00
            +2

            @Yummy: We had to acclimatize first to read the OP…

  • Normalise on 16/08/2019 - 09:10
    +1

    From the way this was written, it sounds like you want the sun to take liability.

    Either way, if you crossed the give way line and got hit at the intersection, you are at fault as it's your responsibility to check both sides.

  • aboogee on 16/08/2019 - 09:15

    another weekly troll post?
    seems to be averaging 1 troll post per week…

  • Seaeagles on 16/08/2019 - 09:31
    +2

    Sounds like the typical I stuffed up but want to try and shift the blame thread to me.

    You have pulled out from an intersection that wasn't clear, doesn't matter if she was speeding you should be able to judge that and take the appropriate action. I don't think they were speeding if they only lived 10 house up the road.

    Even if they did leave the driveway and gunned it, it will still take at least 10 seconds to reach you, plenty of time for you to clear the intersection if it was clear. I can't see how you are not 100% at fault.

  • Caped Baldy on 16/08/2019 - 09:34
    -1

    I need footage, from what was written it seems that the sun was blinding both drivers from different directions. The size of the intersection is a factor and you haven't even said the time of day or direction.

    I think in the end both drivers will end up paying their respective excess. At least you're insured…

  • Davo1111 on 16/08/2019 - 10:24

    you are 100% at fault. You were required to give way, and you didn't.

    100%

  • pegaxs on 16/08/2019 - 10:30
    +6

    Lol. These troll posts are getting more hilarious. And y'all takin' that bait.

    You were both driving in different directions and both got blinded by sunlight… Binary star system? Have you tried TatooineBargain.com?

    • Yummy on 16/08/2019 - 12:55
      -1

      Sticker on the back of the car: #ilovestarwars

    • johnno07 on 17/08/2019 - 21:55

      It's not a troll post. The OP is almost certainly the sh*thouse driver he's unknowingly admitted to, and he's posted here because Ozbargain is the number one Australian result for Google searches like "Herr derr I broke a road rule what do?"

    • ssquid on 18/08/2019 - 00:04

      Have you tried TatooineBargain.com?

      Bought a droid from there and it blew up before it even made it home. Then the replacement they gave me buggered off in the middle of the night.

  • mubd1234 on 16/08/2019 - 10:31

    If you are sun blinded and unsure if you can see a car coming due to the sun, you simply do not pull out. It's not the other drivers' fault that you played russian roulette just because the sun was in your face. If it's too difficult to make the right turn/straight on movement, turn left and find an alternate route.

    • Harold Halfprice on 16/08/2019 - 23:03

      Lol who taught you how to drive? Wtf do you expect people to do - just sit there at the intersection until a cloud covers the sun? RIDICULOUS! What if there are no clouds?

      • mubd1234 on 18/08/2019 - 22:19

        So your driving instructor taught you that if you can't see what's coming for whatever reason - the sun, a bush, an illegally parked car, whatever - you just yeet the accelerator and pray that nothing's coming?

        In OP's situation, as I said in my previous comment, they had the alternative where they could have turned left at the intersection and taken an alternative route which doesn't involve a risky turn due to a lack of vision.

  • happirt on 16/08/2019 - 11:14

    you failed to give way as the sign told you to.

    • Yummy on 16/08/2019 - 12:58
      +2

      I saw the sign and it opened up my eyes, I saw the sign
      Life is demanding without understanding
      I saw the sign and it opened up my eyes, I saw the sign
      No one's gonna drag you up to get into the light where you belong…

      Ps: swap the word 'sign' to 'sun'.

  • trapper on 16/08/2019 - 12:11
    +2

    How is this even up for debate…

    You were required to give way but drove out in front of another car which hit you.

  • ssjwill on 16/08/2019 - 12:15
    +6

    well both drivers now don't have a car, so win win for the rest of us ¯_(ツ)_/¯

    • pegaxs on 16/08/2019 - 12:44
      +4

      I'm glad that OP posted the area it happened in, so I know what area to avoid between sunrise and sunset…

  • me4president on 16/08/2019 - 12:36
    +1

    Insurance would say you are at fault as you didnt give way when going through an intersection that has a giveway sign.

  • drprox on 16/08/2019 - 13:40
    +1

    Easy one. your fault.

  • capslock janitor on 16/08/2019 - 13:49

    My cyclist friend says Your fault

    • kurisu on 16/08/2019 - 16:54
      +1

      Best not to bring cyclists into this, or you will have people claiming that your cyclist friend is the one at fault.

  • happirt on 16/08/2019 - 14:11
    +1

    Buy some sunglasses that's what they are for.

  • CoreJava on 16/08/2019 - 14:41

    Why people waste time on this thread. The one supposed to give way failed to give way.. just pay your excess mate. Trying to use sun blind as an excuse…

  • star-ggg on 16/08/2019 - 15:05
    +4

    I can see that intersection is a poor place for a give way sign, but you are supposed to wait in the middle to check and give way to traffic on the other side as well.

    • GoldenDragon888 on 16/08/2019 - 20:07

      This. I live in this area. And that is exactly what you are meant to do. There are trees in the median nature strip too and it’s hard to see. You can’t just scream or even meander through the intersection.

  • cashless on 16/08/2019 - 19:22
    +4

    My car has a sun visor fitted.

    • ssquid on 16/08/2019 - 19:41
      +1

      So you can go on, like a blibster in the sun?

    • oSammy21 on 18/08/2019 - 00:52

      “My car has a sun visor fitted“

      Sweet flex bro

  • HeWhoKnows on 16/08/2019 - 20:46
    +1

    Pretty straight forward

    If OP comes through a GIVE WAY sign and the other driver has no signage indicating they must give way then OP is clearly at fault.

    And OP just so you know, you cant blame the sun for your accident!

    Let your insurnace company work it out

  • ankor on 17/08/2019 - 10:32
    +1

    @preddye

    Dude, you are doing the following:

    1) entering a main road from a feeder road
    2) crossing a give way sign to do #1

    Both of those things mean that you have to give way to a vehicle travelling on the main thoroughfare.

  • Godric on 17/08/2019 - 12:27

    Another one to add to the pile

  • aussieolfaction on 17/08/2019 - 13:51

    You failed to give way and caused a major accident, and are asking whose fault was that? Be glad that nobody was dead or seriously injured due to your reckless driving, because otherwise you will be in a prison.

  • Zeusy on 17/08/2019 - 15:49

    You had a give way sign, she didn’t. She had the right of way.

  • fozzie on 17/08/2019 - 19:55

    Your fault, sunny or sunny.

  • oSammy21 on 18/08/2019 - 00:50

    The other driver shouldn’t of admitted to being sun blind at all. You’re at fault hands down. Sun blind or not; should of slowed down in the between lane gap to check your incoming traffic and to make sure it was safe to pass.

    I’m seriously hoping this is a troll post.

    • ssquid on 18/08/2019 - 01:57
      -1

      When I see someone using "of" instead of "have" I always hope it's a troll post.

  • Sage on 18/08/2019 - 21:45

    what a dogshit intersection.

  • brad1-8tsi on 19/08/2019 - 11:01
    +1

    give way sign? You are at fault

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