What if; Taxi door opened into road, car hits it?
Discussion
NinjaPower said:
A girl I work with lives in a terraced street and therefore parallel parks her car on the side of the road every day.
She was cleaning her 206 one day and had climbed in the side facing the road to reach the back seats and the door kept falling shut onto her feet, so in frustration she booted the door wide open, just as a car was passing.
It was a right mess with the door pretty much folded back onto the front wing.
The woman driving the other car said it wasn't her fault naturally and my work colleague contested this vigorously.
In the end, my work colleague lied to the police and insurance company and stated that she had the door open the whole time and the woman ploughed right into it.
Because of her misleading statement, the other drivers insurance paid out for all the repairs.
To sum up what the police told her at the time: if you crash into an already open door you either haven't left enough room to pass safely or aren't watching where you are going, then it will be wholly your fault.
If you crash into a door that someone has just flung open in front of you, then it won't be your fault unless you are driving far too close to the parked cars.
Wow, what a She was cleaning her 206 one day and had climbed in the side facing the road to reach the back seats and the door kept falling shut onto her feet, so in frustration she booted the door wide open, just as a car was passing.
It was a right mess with the door pretty much folded back onto the front wing.
The woman driving the other car said it wasn't her fault naturally and my work colleague contested this vigorously.
In the end, my work colleague lied to the police and insurance company and stated that she had the door open the whole time and the woman ploughed right into it.
Because of her misleading statement, the other drivers insurance paid out for all the repairs.
To sum up what the police told her at the time: if you crash into an already open door you either haven't left enough room to pass safely or aren't watching where you are going, then it will be wholly your fault.
If you crash into a door that someone has just flung open in front of you, then it won't be your fault unless you are driving far too close to the parked cars.
. Glad I've got a dashcam.NinjaPower said:
maurauth said:
Wow, what a . Glad I've got a dashcam.
Absolutely.. Glad I've got a dashcam.She was really quite amused that she got away with it.
Anyway, I seem to recall something similar being asked here already; the original question, as it actually happened to someone, can't find it though.
pork911 said:
would it even need that?
just a question to your wife would be sufficient - did you drive into the open door? i don't know i wasn't looking at it
Sorry, my point was meant to be that even if it was opened immediately in front of her it would be her fault unless a witness saw it open straight into her car. It was assumed to be her fault from the off.just a question to your wife would be sufficient - did you drive into the open door? i don't know i wasn't looking at it
pork911 said:
would it even need that?
just a question to your wife would be sufficient - did you drive into the open door? i don't know i wasn't looking at it
Sorry, my point was meant to be that even if it was opened immediately in front of her it would be her fault unless a witness saw it open straight into her car. It was assumed to be her fault from the off.just a question to your wife would be sufficient - did you drive into the open door? i don't know i wasn't looking at it
Guffy said:
A kind lady opened her car door into the path of my bicycle, resulting in broken ribs (Mine 
) She was charged.
Had that happen to me, she was doing rounds collecting debt money or something and was looking at her paperwork instead of checking if something was coming. I slammed into the door so hard it threw me across the road and I was just lucky there wasn't something coming the other way. She couldn't shut her door again afterwards. ) She was charged. Saw a doctor but didn't see the need to go to A&E, didn't get the massive pain until a day later which I assume was a broken rib.
She admitted liability to her own insurance and I got a new bike out of it (bent frame). No plod involvement at all.
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