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    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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