Re: parking lot accident

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On 8/18/08, patricia Gallagher wrote:
> 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.