Driving & Driving Test Tips: accident reconstruction, unsafe lane change, accident reconstruction


Question
Mark,
I recently received a traffic ticket for a unsafe lane change that resulted in an accident.  I was at a stop sign turning right onto an accel lane. 190 ft from where I was stopped to the point of the accident I was hit on the passenger side rear end. I was attempting to merge into the lane and discovered the oncoming car was going extremely fast. I returned to the accel lane and the car tried to pass on my right and hit me.  The driver of the car that rear ended me convinced the officer that I came into the second lane before returning to the accel lane and therefore I crossed two lanes and came back.  I argued that was not possible. I took several pictures and measured distances.  I discovered that it was impossible for my vehicle to have pulled out two lanes and cut back two lanes plus square my vehicle up so that I'm parralle with traffic in the distance of 190 feet.  The officer never considered this.  Plus there were no skid marks from an attempt to stop because the other driver was moving at a high rate of speed and had to swerve instead of break to avoid the impact. I feel strongy about this, but my question is with no witnesses how can the city prove "beyond a reasonable" doubt that I'm at fault here?

Answer
this can only be proven if there is any physical evidence of the point of impact.  if there are any tire marks or debries in the roadway to show where your vehicle was located at the point of impact.

this is the only way to prove your side beyond a reasonable doubt.