You Hit A Car At Night With No Headlights On, And? (vehicle, lane)
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I've come close, in my driving years, of this happening. It's night time, few street lights, you make a right turn onto a street/highway, and you didn't see the car coming by because they didn't have their headlights on, you hit the car, and the driver, perhaps, suddenly realizes he didn't have his headlights on, so then he puts them on, waiting for the police to arrive.
Police arrive, and I'm trying to tell the police this driver didn't have his headlights on, and would I have a leg to stand on? Would there be a way of proving, by feeling the heat of the headlights, that that this person had recently turned them on?
Doubtful that you would have a leg to stand on. You could tell the officer and have him question the other driver. The other driver may own up to it when questioned by the officer. If you had a witness, you would have a case. Otherwise, you have headlights on your car for navigating in the dark and should have seen the other vehicle is likely the position.
Last year someone I know made a left turn and hit an oncoming car without headlights on. No streetlights, it was a rural two-lane road.
I'm not sure if the other driver was given a ticket for not using headlights (hopefully he was) but my friend was the one determined to be at fault and charged with the accident.
Last time one of these terrifying incidents happened, it was late at night, in the city, little or no traffic, and I was doing a right exit onto a one-way, 3 lane road, and this car came speeding by at 50? 60? miles per hour, and it didn't help the car was colored black or dark gray.
Really, you can see objects that aren't in the illumination range of your headlights in the dark?
No but, its's the same thing as hitting a stationary object in the road. Its is your responsible to maintain proper look out, as well as maintaining control of your vehicle at all times.
If the car without headlights is in its own on coming lane or side of the road, why would you ever hit it? Assuming it is, you would be at fault for crossing into its lane and the officer would check if you've been drinking...
No but, its's the same thing as hitting a stationary object in the road.
Not really, if you hit an abject in the road you're driving on it's likely your headlights will illuminate it at some point before impact. A vehicle coming from your left with your car angled to take a right turn won't be illuminated.
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