How astute. This forum has become a site for a bunch of Dimwits who believe everyone but themselves is either stupid, a criminal, or heading for everlasting damnation. Hence when a father takes his daughter to an empty parking lot to teach her the basics of operating a motor vehicle and a tragic unforeseeable accident occurs these same dimwits say the father and daughter are stupid dimwits who are criminals. The eternal damnation thing is in the works when they find out the father and daughter are Catholic.
Geeesh it was an accident and there is nothing left but for a civil court to ram it to the father as he is in the end civilly liable but he is not a freaking criminal.
This site is not a shadow of what it was in 98-99.
I forgot to address that part. If your car is in someone else's lane for almost ANY reason you will be found liable. You would however have a claim against the deer (or its parents if it was a minor). Just pursue that one in court.
No, but that's a moot point, because the odds are very good that I wouldn't be found negligent in the situation I described.
Actually you are very wrong. If you caused the collision, you caused the collision, regardless if you feel you were negligent or not. The party that sustains damages or injuries is not going to care what the reason was for running into them. If you cause a collision, and are found to be the cause, you will be at fault, you and your insurance company will be found liable. Now if you swerved to avoid hitting a cow and changed lanes causing an accident, you will be found liable, for damages or injuries, however, you can try to go after who ever owned the cow for failing to secure their animal. Believe it or not, if you swerved to avoid hitting a child in a crosswalk, and caused an accident with another vehicle, you again would be found liable for damages.