   I am so furious!
  I got a letter today from my insurance company saying that the police have judged me to be at fault for a car crash that happened to me in December. It was an oncoming car to me that was turning right (UK roads) in to the same road as me (who was turning left). I had road priority and the green light to go so how the hell am I at fault when she should have waited till I''d turned?? I''m a young (21 year old) male driver. She''s about 17 and a new driver. I''m a victim of sterotyping! My fucking blood is boiling and she is going to get off scott free and i''m going to get lumbered with the costs.My anger hasn''t subsided all day. I really feel like smacking someone and i''m not really a violent person  I feel terrible.What do I do? 
  Contest the ticket and go to court.  You''ll win. ;  I say you go out there and you KICK SOME ASs... Er, yeah, just contest the ticket. If the judicial system is anything like it is here, the other person won''t ever bother showing and you''ll get off scott free.   "Luck is for people without skill."- Robert (I Want My Island) ;  another tactic that I''ve heard of (though never used) is to reschedule the court date for the next day. You need an excuse, like "I have an important test" or "I have an important board meeting". The reason is because they generally put all traffic violations on the same dockit on the same day, so that the cops only have to take one day out of their month to show up in court. Rescheduling it for the next day will make your case special, the cop would have to waste all day to show up for ONE ticket.I''ve never done it, but it sounds reasonable. I know exactly what you are talking about, though, because my ONLY traffic violation was a "failure to yield right of way while executing a left turn". I was making a left turn onto a new road, and from the opposite direction a taxi cab hit me. Totalled the taxi, but I was in my old truck, only left a huge dent in the wheel well. Anyway, the situation was that when I began to turn, he was not in view. He was travelling so fast, that in the time it took me to make the turn, he came out from around the lazy bend, travelled ~100 yards, and smacked me so hard it knocked the back end of the truck around 90 degrees, and totally destroyed his front end. He was travelling so fast that when he slammed on the breaks, he locked his tires and they immediately started smoking, leaving a 30ft long skid mark. However, this was in Maryland, and they don''t measure tire marks unless there was a death in the accident, so there was no "official" way of determining his speed. My ass, the calculations aren''t hard, I ran them myself, the guy was doing atleast 65MPH in a 25MPH zone, and he was probably doing more like 75. The Judge was a dickhead, there were 4 or 5 cases before mine that were other young males with traffic violations, and they were obviously at fault (in fact, none of them contested the charges, they were their to get the fee waved because they supposedly couldn''t afford it). So, I figure he just lumped me in with the obviously guilty ones. At one point, he told me "Speed is not a contributing factor in accidents". THEN WHY THE HELL DO WE HAVE SPEED LIMITS??? The taxi driver''s moving violation sheet was a mile long. Supposedly, he was also in trouble for aiding a murderer to escape from the crime. The cop also tried to explain to the judge that, given my record vs. the taxi-driver''s record, that it was more than likely I was not at fault, and that given a second chance he wouldn''t have written the ticket. The judge didn''t want to hear it apparently.But, luckily my insurance didn''t go up, because the points didn''t go on my Pennsylvania liscence because it was in Maryland. Something about the point accounting is seperate for each state, so I have points in Maryland, but they don''t transfer over to PA, so my insurance company won''t find out about them.That was 3 years ago, and I have never had another moving violation again. Yeah, I''m a dangerous driver. ;  I''m not too sure what happens over here ... You see after the accident we only had to telephone our insurance companies to inform them of it. We (or at least I!) got breathalised at the scene. We then had something like 7 days to show our drivers license and insurance documents to the police. The police then give a report to the insurance companies who, I believe, barter it out amongst themselves. I have always maintained that I wasn''t at fault. But now those incompetant, doughnut-munching bastards we call police have chosen a side in their report! I bet they tossed a fuckin'' coin. I have to admit to being totally baffled and incredulous at their conclusion.I phoned my insurance company today and I think they can do like an appeal. I don''t hold out much hope though. My only consolation is that I know she was in the wrong and will likely have another accident. With a bit of luck she''ll be written off next time along with her damn car! 