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Old 12-25-10 | 09:11 PM
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Originally Posted by dchsueh
I don't know how it is in your jurisdiction, but in Ontario, Canada, if a driver is in reverse generally they are at fault:
https://www.ibc.ca/en/Car_Insurance/d...tion-Rules.pdf clause 19(a)
Yeah, but I bumped her first and there was no one there to back me up (pun intended) that she backed up on me, so I was still concerned. Did have a guy in a Mini Cooper ask if I was OK or needed assistance, then left when I said I was fine.
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Originally Posted by MijnWraak
oh wait, nope I remember seeing a mini-van doing it. Sorry kentuckyers
Is it a Kentucky thing? (seriously!) We pulled out of Lexington, on an entrance ramp, driving a Crew Cab Superduty pulling 32' of RV trailer... Had some lady in a RAV 4 so intent on getting past us on an exit that she ran into the grass on the right of the exit, passed us, fishtailed back onto the ramp in front of us and off she went.

To this day have not seen anything like it...
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Originally Posted by CCrew
Is it a Kentucky thing? (seriously!) We pulled out of Lexington, on an entrance ramp, driving a Crew Cab Superduty pulling 32' of RV trailer... Had some lady in a RAV 4 so intent on getting past us on an exit that she ran into the grass on the right of the exit, passed us, fishtailed back onto the ramp in front of us and off she went.

To this day have not seen anything like it...
I've seen things like that out here in Seattle, too. Had someone ignore the 7 car-length gap behind me where they could have merged safely from their on-ramp, and instead they laid on their horn, rode the dwindling paved shoulder right next to me, and rolled down their window to throw a Hostess mini-donut at my car because I refused to break pace and let them ahead of me. Idiocy isn't a regional attribute; it's everywhere.
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