- 22 Feb 18, 07:36#443639
OK, so my wife got in a wreck today, after another driver slid on ice into the road my wife was driving on and crunch! This is the scenario. In the image below, the grey arrow signifies my car, the red arrow signifies the other car, who has right of way?
The other driver's insurance company is claiming that their driver had the right of way and my wife should have yielded as state law says that at intersections, the driver on the right has the right of way. This is certainly true when two roads cross each other and continue on, however, in this situation, where the side street ends, surely the driver on the road that continues has the right of way, and the driver entering from the T-junction enters the flow of traffic when it is safe to do so? There is no separate rule for T-junctions, so their insurance is using the lack of a rule as the rule as their basis for trying to shift blame onto us, my insurance company sees it the same way I do..
The other driver's insurance company is claiming that their driver had the right of way and my wife should have yielded as state law says that at intersections, the driver on the right has the right of way. This is certainly true when two roads cross each other and continue on, however, in this situation, where the side street ends, surely the driver on the road that continues has the right of way, and the driver entering from the T-junction enters the flow of traffic when it is safe to do so? There is no separate rule for T-junctions, so their insurance is using the lack of a rule as the rule as their basis for trying to shift blame onto us, my insurance company sees it the same way I do..
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