Re: auto accident

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On 10/27/10, Leona wrote:
> My mom just got into an accident she had stopped at a stop
> sign and looked both ways before turning right but a car
> came and hit her in the passenger side of the car who's
> fault is it? The officer at the accident said it was her's
> but if the car hit my mother in the back towards the end of
> her turning isn't it obvious that the car that hit my
mother
> speeding and not looking at what he was doing so isn't that
> driver at fault and not my mother? So isn't the officer
> wrong in this and the other driver at fault and legally
> responsible to pay for the damages done to my mother's car?

There is an important part of this story missing... was this
a 4 way stop? Did the other person have a stop sign? If they
did not have a stop sign, then it is, in fact, your mother's
fault. Unless the other party was driving at an unreasonable
or excessive speed, which would have caused her not to see
him, begin a turn believing nobody was there, and resulting
in him slamming into her. Likely the damages on the
vehicles will tell that story.