Unsafe backing? Idaho

And the OP as a additional defendant.

Im thinking the road is a winter condition, must be a thousand trackmarks in the plowed or slush section. It would have been better for it to be dry for skid marks.

In this case there does not seem to be video cam footage. Need to have one on the front facing ahead and one facing rear. It will eliminate much of the hesaidshesaid going on here. If you do not have a camera tonight, get it before you go to sleep.

A part of me leans towards backing into a driveway then pulling ahead out onto the main road. If you pulled into the driveway and tried to back out onto main road... you know, they know, and anyone who has been out here long enough knows something might come along and here we are.

I had a old woman plow through my triangles closing two of three lanes uphill from a traffic intersection and forced to stop underneath the deck of my flatbed (Duh... you cannot see that great big giant monster taking the entire road?) and I was forced to slap my brakes while at a angle to my trailer.

It promptly rolled towards the lady through her windshield hanging over the hood. My steers was forced into the sky with me on it when the trailer pulled against drives and frame of my tractor trying to flop over properly all over this woman. Tractor won that one and slammed back down with me in it. Oh my back...

Anything is possible involving people who wont stop. And this one certainly didnt stop for nothing until her freaking hood was under my deck up against the center frame of my flatbed while im backing. Such stubborness.

That was the last time I was dispatched back to that ABC Supply shop too. I was not really willing to be running anymore loads up there in Jersey off US 9.

 

So you pulled in a driveway and backed out on to a road? We're you just in drive or moving along at the speed of traffic when you were hit? You were either unable to see her, going too slow or stopped in the road when she hit you or she was going wayyyyy too fast (best case scenario). A diagram is good but I think I see why you were issued the citation and you will probably have a hell of a time fighting it. I would 100% fight it but it sounds like the cars might be stacked against you.

 

Always safer to pull out of any parking spot vs backing out.
I back in almost everywhere; grocery store, Walmart, doctors office, dentist office and back in to my garage at the house.

 

Exactly. That's day one stuff. Back first.... always.

 

But would you have seen her earlier had you been pulling out instead of backing out? If you had pulled out would you have been going faster than 15mph due to the fact you didn't have to back, stop, put it in drive, and then go? I'm just playing devil's advocate here because if you fight it these are the questions you need to have the right answers to.