And what did your insurance company say? In most states whoever hit the other car from behind is automatically at fault.
“In most states whoever hit the other car from behind is automatically at fault.”
Not necessarily. . .
Stopped at a stop-light, a car in front puts their vehicle in reverse and backs into you. . .frontal damage for you and rear damage for the other car. . .who’s at fault?
Not automatically, as a cursory investigation would identify the other car as starting the chain of events that resulted in the mishap.
Oh, my last mishap was this: I was in one lane and the other car was in the adjacent lane and drifted into my lane, causing me to strike the other car’s left-rear quarter panel with my right-front quarter panel. I clearly hit the other car but the police could reconstruct sequence of events and there was no way I could avoid being struck.
(side note: the other driver had a bag of candy in the front seat next to him. . .he was reaching for the candy and didn’t catch himself as he drifted into me (and I couldn’t move over. . .curb, tree-lined medium).
Nice guy, working for a good company that paid all my expenses with no quibbling.