On Tue, 14 May 2013 21:34:00 +0100, August West <
aug...@kororaa.com> wrote:
>
> The entity calling itself Gefreiter Krueger wrote:
>>
>> If you don't crash, it's completely irrelevant.
>
> You do like stating the obvious, don't you? I assume you think you'll
> never crash? Or be crashed into?
>
>> If you do, you'll probably be decided as at fault (or not) before even
>> considering the highway code.
>
> And you don't know very much about the law, either. Failure to follow
> the Highway Code by, for example, reversing onto a road, or stopping on
> the carriageway to let someone out of a side road, will be presented by
> the prosecutuin or pursuers as clear evidence of a breach of the duty of
> care. So the Highway Code is of primary importance in such an action.
> As the Act said.
If I reverse out of my drive into the path of an oncoming car I am CLEARLY at fault.
If I go forwards out of my drive into the path of an oncoming car I am CLEARLY at fault.
The only rule required in determining fault in either of the two cases is who is meant to give way!
>>>> And shouldn't that read "negate"?
>>>
>>> No.
>>
>> Negative is not a verb.
>
> It is in legal writing. Of which you are utterly ignorant. As you have
> proved time and again.
Why not teach lawyers English? Then we wouldn't have to pay them to translate their writings.
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