I was in a car accident. I was waiting at a junction to turn right onto a busy road, I checked to my right, a van was indicating left into the road I was waiting in, there was a gap in traffic behind him. I checked to my left, again there was a gap. I checked again to my right, a reasonable gap behind the van of about two car lengths, enough time for me to reach the opposite side of the road.As the van began to take the left turn, slowly at about 15 mph, I went to turn right, as I approached nearly the middle of the road, a car struck me with his passenger side front corner into my drivers side front corner. I was at about a 45 degree angle when he hit me. I believe he had overtaken the van whilst the van was turning. He had to cross onto the hashed lines to do this. he was accelerating as he hit me. The force knocked my car straight again and I came to rest with my bumper parallel to the kerb across the road, with his passenger side bumper against my rear drivers wheel.
He said he didn't see me and I said I didn't see him. I was unsure if his car was the car behind the van, if it was he must have sped up and accelerated around the van whilst it was turning for him to hit me, as I would have been across the road by then.
He claims I pulled straight out in front of him after the van turned. My argument is if he had been following the van at a safe distance he would have likely been travelling at 15 mph when the van had completed his turn, in which case we both would have had time to stop before the collision, or I would have ended been shunted to the left, if my nose had been stuck out.
My other theory is that perhaps he was beginning to move around the van on my final check, in which case I wouldn't have seen him as the van was a white transit and so would have blocked my view.which would explain why he didn't see me either.
Hope this makes sense?!
I'm hoping insurance find him liable, or at least 50/50 as he's broken highway codes of not overtaking at junctions and crossing over hashed lines.
However this happened during rush hour so no one stopped, so no witnesses, and police didn't attend. My car, which was brand new in February is probably written off now, causing £7500 worth of damage. No airbags went off and my head smashed on the steering wheel.
Any ideas on liability? And why on earth did my airbags not go off in a nearly top of the range car 9 month old !
He said he didn't see me and I said I didn't see him. I was unsure if his car was the car behind the van, if it was he must have sped up and accelerated around the van whilst it was turning for him to hit me, as I would have been across the road by then.
He claims I pulled straight out in front of him after the van turned. My argument is if he had been following the van at a safe distance he would have likely been travelling at 15 mph when the van had completed his turn, in which case we both would have had time to stop before the collision, or I would have ended been shunted to the left, if my nose had been stuck out.
My other theory is that perhaps he was beginning to move around the van on my final check, in which case I wouldn't have seen him as the van was a white transit and so would have blocked my view.which would explain why he didn't see me either.
Hope this makes sense?!
I'm hoping insurance find him liable, or at least 50/50 as he's broken highway codes of not overtaking at junctions and crossing over hashed lines.
However this happened during rush hour so no one stopped, so no witnesses, and police didn't attend. My car, which was brand new in February is probably written off now, causing £7500 worth of damage. No airbags went off and my head smashed on the steering wheel.
Any ideas on liability? And why on earth did my airbags not go off in a nearly top of the range car 9 month old !