Absolutely.
They're 'proper' off-road vehicles and have a very low centre of gravity as a result. You wouldn't roll one by driving into it with a Kia, not without killing all the people in the Kia.
He clearly tried to make some kind of evasive manoeuvre before the accident, and he was carrying enough momentum/inertia to help tip the Range Rover once the collision occurred.
Of course, it won't be Phil's fault. It'll likely be written off as an unavoidable set of circumstances brought about by adverse weather conditions and poor road planning. I guarantee if there had been a fatality, the blame would be shifted onto the Kia drivers.
(, Fri 18 Jan 2019, 13:15, Reply)
the sunshine and the council have already been given the blame
Doddery old man who nobody can say no to and has almost certainly never taken a test is obviously a saint
(, Fri 18 Jan 2019, 13:20, Reply)
if it hadnt been a mother and child in the Kia, they would have been to blame
Reading some of the headlines you'd think he'd rescued them rather than sent them to hospital
(, Fri 18 Jan 2019, 13:31, Reply)
Christ, imagine if she'd been a young male Muslim immigrant.
Upon refreshing the Reuters feed every Mail journo would have simultaneously shot their load.
(, Fri 18 Jan 2019, 19:27, Reply)
That road in question has had an unusual number of fatal accidents
and had campaigns to reduce it's speed limit, so it's likely that poor road planning was a contributing factor.
(, Fri 18 Jan 2019, 13:49, Reply)
imagine if you were the Kia driver, tootling along quite legally at 60mph or whatever she was doing
A 97 year old pulls out of a junction in front of you. You crash into him
Who is to blame? Is it him, or the council for letting you drive so fast
(, Fri 18 Jan 2019, 14:11, Reply)
Again, conjecture.
You have no idea what speed she was doing, or if the manner of her driving was legal or reckless.
I'm not gonna bother giving you an answer to an entirely hypothetical question constructed specifically for you to receive the answer which you wish to receive, unless you're prepared to answer the equal and opposite question based on exactly the same amount of conjecture.
Imagine if you were the Range Rover driver, pulling out from a junction quite legally onto a 60 mph road. A middle aged woman appears, going much faster than the legal limit and smashes into the side of you. Who is to blame?
(, Fri 18 Jan 2019, 14:27, Reply)
Citation needed.
I don't believe there is any legislation which states that.
(, Fri 18 Jan 2019, 14:46, Reply)
well, I pulled out in front of someone
from a normal give way junction (which it looks like here) and my insurance told me they wouldn't challenge the claim if the person who hit me made one because they have right of way. The only exception to this is if the person doing the hitting broke any laws immediately before or during the accident - like speeding. But without equipment, or the evidence of numerous witnesses speeding is a difficult one to prove.
(, Fri 18 Jan 2019, 15:01, Reply)
In the absence of any other evidence,
there is a general assumption that the person pulling out is at fault, but it is by no means certain.
(, Fri 18 Jan 2019, 15:35, Reply)