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Patrobas
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There are really two parts to my query:
First, as a quick background:
At the end of April, I was involved in a multi-car accident on I-85 in Atlanta Georgia, totalling my car and barely escaping alive. The accident was caused by another driver.
I obtained a rental car, provided by the other driver's insurance company.
In mid-May, I was pulling out of a gas station, turning laft onto a four-lane road (A through lane, a right-turn-lane and a left-turn-lane on the side closest to me and a single lane on the opposite side).
I waited for the traffic to slow and the traffic stopped to let me through (The As on the chart below) I checked both ways and there were no cars coming. I pulled out into the road to turn left and a car coming from the right 'C' force me to stop before I could get into the opposite lane.
I was halfway through the 'third' lane 'B' when I stopped to let the car pass by. Then, a quick-moving vehicle pulled into the third lane 'D' to try to beat the light, saw me idle, locked up his brakes and hit me.
<=========OPPOSITE LANE=========C==
......../=D====B=TURN LANE=========> STOP
============A====THROUGH LANE======> LIGHT
........\===A====TURN LANE=========>
..............<> I turned left from here
My first question deals with RIGHT OF WAY. I yielded the right of way to oncoming traffic. They stopped to let me in. When I pulled into the B position, there was no oncoming car in that lane. I stopped. The driver at position D pulled into a turn lane where there was a stopped car (mine) and he hit me. How did I fail to yield right of way? Is there any responsibility on his part to watch where he is driving? What if I had been a car waiting in that lane for the light? He would still have hit me. Any comments??
The second issue is about proof of insurance. Right before my wreck, I had been working with State Farm on the phone at home dealing with the FIRST WRECK (which totalled my car) so I had the insurance information at my desk two blocks away from my accident. The policeman wrote me the ticket and said that all I had to do was show the office PROOF OF INSURANCE and they would drop it. Incidentally, the office said that I would need to appear in court on both counts and would still have to pay.
Any advice on either of these issues? I know this is a quick turnaround but my court date is Tuesday and I did not discover this site until today.
Any help is appreciated.
David C
patrobas@email.com
First, as a quick background:
At the end of April, I was involved in a multi-car accident on I-85 in Atlanta Georgia, totalling my car and barely escaping alive. The accident was caused by another driver.
I obtained a rental car, provided by the other driver's insurance company.
In mid-May, I was pulling out of a gas station, turning laft onto a four-lane road (A through lane, a right-turn-lane and a left-turn-lane on the side closest to me and a single lane on the opposite side).
I waited for the traffic to slow and the traffic stopped to let me through (The As on the chart below) I checked both ways and there were no cars coming. I pulled out into the road to turn left and a car coming from the right 'C' force me to stop before I could get into the opposite lane.
I was halfway through the 'third' lane 'B' when I stopped to let the car pass by. Then, a quick-moving vehicle pulled into the third lane 'D' to try to beat the light, saw me idle, locked up his brakes and hit me.
<=========OPPOSITE LANE=========C==
......../=D====B=TURN LANE=========> STOP
============A====THROUGH LANE======> LIGHT
........\===A====TURN LANE=========>
..............<> I turned left from here
My first question deals with RIGHT OF WAY. I yielded the right of way to oncoming traffic. They stopped to let me in. When I pulled into the B position, there was no oncoming car in that lane. I stopped. The driver at position D pulled into a turn lane where there was a stopped car (mine) and he hit me. How did I fail to yield right of way? Is there any responsibility on his part to watch where he is driving? What if I had been a car waiting in that lane for the light? He would still have hit me. Any comments??
The second issue is about proof of insurance. Right before my wreck, I had been working with State Farm on the phone at home dealing with the FIRST WRECK (which totalled my car) so I had the insurance information at my desk two blocks away from my accident. The policeman wrote me the ticket and said that all I had to do was show the office PROOF OF INSURANCE and they would drop it. Incidentally, the office said that I would need to appear in court on both counts and would still have to pay.
Any advice on either of these issues? I know this is a quick turnaround but my court date is Tuesday and I did not discover this site until today.
Any help is appreciated.
David C
patrobas@email.com