You're right, but as I said, it depends on how far out on the road she was when the other driver hit her
An existing hazard doesn't include someone suddenly pulling out in front of you. however binky did say 'scraped my panels', which suggests she was already pulled out and on the road when the other driver hit her. In this case, you are right, the other driver should be driving at speed where she can safely avoid (brake) even stationary hazards
( cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 11:16, archived)

yeah, it's a difficult one
as how far out she was needs to be balanced against the visibility for the junction

Oh, a cunning idea. Binky, is there a sign on the road where the woman was driving warning of the junction you pulled out of? as in, you know, the usual triangle with the black road junction on it? if so, it's a very strong argument to say that she should have known there was a junction just around the corner and should have slowed down.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 11:20, archived)

nope, country lanes
but she lives faiiiirly local, so she should bloody know that you can't go along them faster than 20, or 30 on an exceptionally visible bit.
( sleepybinky, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 11:43, archived)

scraped her panels, on the corner of my car.
she didn't stop in time or pull over into the hedge away from me.

i dunno i can see it all being called my fault.
( sleepybinky, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 11:51, archived)

It seems pretty straightforward from what you've said.
If she was going too fast to go around you, around a blind corner, then she was driving too fast for the road and it's her fault. As tmb has said, there could have been a tractor round the corner and then she would have been fucked.
( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 11:57, archived)

she wasn't going round a blind corner, she was going past blind entrances.

( sleepybinky, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 11:58, archived)

Then it's still her fault, she shouldn't have been so far over to the left.

( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:12, archived)

to the right.
but it's a single lane, it isn't exactly wide.
( sleepybinky, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:42, archived)

and i will accept that i pulled out without having a clear view, because you actually need to pull out to see
so yeah i did drive into her a bit, but she wasn't exactly slow and oh god i don't know.
( sleepybinky, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 11:58, archived)