Rear accident rant

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Musiclover08

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So today, I passed a traffic circle. I stop at a clearly demarcated pedestrian crossing which is just at the exit, cause there is a pedestrian waiting to cross. AFAIK, the pedestrian has right of way at a pedestrian crossing. I let him cross and am about to go forward when this arse rear ends me. His car got the damage though but he proceeds to tell me that it is my fault for stopping in the first place! :twisted:

Rant over
 
Dumbass. A rear end accident is ALWAYS the fault of the rear car. Weather you stopped because you had to or not is irrelevant. He was not observing a safe following distance and thats why he hit you.
 
Rant Validated.

He was wrong. You were right. Even if there wasn't a pedestrian crossing that you had to yield to, he should have had sufficient following distance to stop behind you.
Even if you had slammed on your brakes in the middle of the highway for no apparent reason, he should not have driven into you. He would be at fault.

It's called "A safe following distance"!

/rant-about-the-rant
 
Lol I so did, but I had to swap details. Idiot just wants his car fixed at my expense. I was in a old suv as well and its rather big, how could he have not seen the car? And then to tell me that it is my fault for stopping at a pedestrian crossing when someone wants to cross, ha so much for his knowledge of the rules of the road. The guys selling mangoes at the side of the road knew more about following distances than he did!
 
Idiot. (Him, not you)

It sickens me how people completely ignore pedestrian crossings. Whenever I stop for them they always seem so surprised at me.

At a mall the other day I walked across a pedestrian crossing and some woman in a tata or some such drove up to me and didn't stop, so I jumped up and kicked a dent into her bumper.

I may have underlying anger issues.
 
ya, these day's you have to look at everyone driving not just yourself. The other day I was waiting at a parking area for this lady to pull out and the guy in the parking just reversed, without looking. Hit my tail light etc, and he has the audacity to say its my fault??? I was waiting at the same spot the whole time and he said I moved in front of him? luckily the parking guard saw what happened and the guy didn't try to do anything funny.

What bothers me most is, how people quickly make it the other persons fault. :mad:
 
If the pedestrian crossing has the "ragged" lines leading up to it, and the pedestrian is at the crossing before you "enter" the lines, the pedestrian has the right of way. Now go and tell that to 90% of drivers.

21_31_26---Pedestrian-Crossing_web.jpg
 
bwahahaha

epic fail @ rear-ender :D

Yes, a pedestrian do have right-of-way, but how many ppl will stop at a pedestrian crossing?
 
Why put a crossing in a circle to begin with? Thats looking for trouble.
 
chrissy said:
Why put a crossing in a circle to begin with? Thats looking for trouble.
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It is the point where traffic moves the slowest - and arguably safest to cross instead of having some speedster nailing down on you on a straight road. Almost (if not) every traffic circle has pedestrian walkways demarcated on it.
 
I think the funniest thing he said was "Why did you stop?" I should have asked, "The question is, why didn't you stop?"
Now I have to make an affidavit. Ugh stupid people, shifting the blame.
 
ColinR said:
If the pedestrian crossing has the "ragged" lines leading up to it, and the pedestrian is at the crossing before you "enter" the lines, the pedestrian has the right of way. Now go and tell that to 90% of drivers.

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:confused: I have never seen those? :confused: granted most of the lines in JoBurg are pretty much gone.

But ye if you hit a pedestrian on a zebra crossing you are in deep moelikheid.
 
I know what you're going through. Last night I had to slam brakes because some woman tried to overtake me on the single-way highway piece on the M5 after the bridge from the N1. Both sides of the road are pillared and had I not stopped, both cars would have collided with each other and the pillars!
 
Madman88 said:
Dumbass. A rear end accident is ALWAYS the fault of the rear car. Weather you stopped because you had to or not is irrelevant. He was not observing a safe following distance and thats why he hit you.
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Technically correct, but there are circumstances where the person in front can be a fault. A good example is the drivers that push weave through the traffic, take a gap and slam on their breaks. This is reckless driving and the person also decreased your available breaking distance. But generally, it is due to the lack of following distance that cause rear enders.
 
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