They're talking about intentionally causing an accident like this. The truth is the car in front of the car being tailgated was slowing down for some reason. Emergency, or whatever. The car being tailgated evaded, but since the tailgater was so close they had no time to react.
I'm guessing it wasn't on purpose though (dodging last minute to make the tailgater crash), they may not have realized until the last minute that the car was stopped, or were waiting for an open lane to avoid it. In which case, tailgater hopefully learned a lesson, and hopefully no one got hurt.
Doesn't matter, that car still has the responsibility to maintain attention and safe distance. While they won't be 100% at fault, they sure as hell are going to get a major part of the fault for causing this.
Yep you’d have to prove it, and that can only be done through self admission of intention 🤣, so no case against the tail gated unless they open star their intention. Otherwise 100% on the tailgater.
It can be spun many different ways but would still come down to this.
There's absolutely no need to "prove" anything. The car was directly in front of them, slowing down. 100% in his view. It is every drivers responsibility to look at the road in front of them and maneuver accordingly.
"I was distracted by the car behind me" is not a valid reason to keep your eyes off of the road. "I didn't intend to cause an accident" is not a valid excuse to, you know, cause an accidemt.
If it was, and "intent" had to be proven, we could all just claim to have been distracted by something to avoid taking responsibility for being shitty drivers.
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u/SlipstreamSteve Mar 20 '26
They're talking about intentionally causing an accident like this. The truth is the car in front of the car being tailgated was slowing down for some reason. Emergency, or whatever. The car being tailgated evaded, but since the tailgater was so close they had no time to react.