Post: parking lot accident
Posted by patricia Gallagher on 8/18/08
Last November I was hit while I was backing out of my parking space. Before I pulled out I checked both ways, when I saw that there was no one coming I slowly started to back out. I looked over my right shoulder agian and saw a car approaching pretty fast so I stopped. The right front fender of the other car struck the right rear end of my car taking my bumber off. When her car stopped moving her rear end was at my rear end and my car was pushed over to the left about two feet. The officer that arrived on the scene said that the accident was "ultimately" my fault because my car was in the parking space. I didn't not have insurance at the time so the girls father filed a lawsuit against me and won due to a neglegent laywer who told me my court date was a month later. He claims he didn't know I was being sued, but I faxed him all the paperwork. I tried to reopen the case after the default judgment was set, but it was denied. I have pictures of the position of the cars after the accident, and if you use common sense you can see that if someone was going the posted 5 mph speed limit they would've; a) been able to stop their car, or b) not done so much damage to the other car. Please respond with any opinions or advice you may have for me. Thank you.
Posts on this thread, including this one
- parking lot accident, 8/18/08, by patricia Gallagher.
- Re: parking lot accident, 9/10/08, by James Thomas.
- Re: parking lot accident, 9/10/08, by James Thomas.
- Re: parking lot accident, 1/23/09, by Brad.
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