Q: Who is at fault for a car accident? Person at stop sign was turning left and hit another car pulling out.
A car was parked on the side curb pulling out on to the main straight away street. There is a stop sign intersection right behind the car and a car was at the stop sign and turned and hit the car pullling out on the drivers side with children in it and caused great damage to the car but no damage to theirs
A: A Virginia attorney could advise best, but your question remains open for two weeks. Until you are able to review the accident with a local attorney (if a police report was issued, that would be helpful), both vehicles may bear some liability, one as a parked vehicle entering a roadway, and the other as a vehicle at a stop sign. If an attorney had additional information about distances between vehicles, direction of travel, speeds, and other factors, those would be helpful. Good luck
A: Addendum - a local attorney could also advise on your state's applicable comparative negligence/contributory negligence doctrines. Based on percentages of respective liability, these could have different outcomes of a person's available recourses, depending on the jurisdiction. It isn't a general formula that applies universally across the board to yield the same results in all states. Identical scenarios could present different rights, depending on the jurisdiction and the doctrines it follows - unfortunately, not always fairly. Good luck
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