[Camilliarobin]

Hello, I am in Alabama. I got hit in the back on a main road about a week ago. I had no insurance the man that hit me was on drugs. Can they make me pay for his car? It was not my fault. What can happen?

[Krazi]

Not your fault, he rear-ended you and he was on drugs. I don't see how they can put any blame on you.

They may say something about you not having insurance but this mess should fall on his shoulders.


What determines who is responsible for a traffic accident?

Figuring out who is at fault in a traffic accident is a matter of deciding who was careless. And, for vehicle accidents, there is a set of official written rules telling people how they are supposed to drive and providing guidelines by which liability may be measured. These rules of the road are the traffic laws everyone must learn to pass the driver's license test. Complete rules are contained in each state's vehicle code, and they apply not only to automobiles but also to motorcycles, bicycles, and pedestrians.

Sometimes a violation of one of these traffic rules is obvious and was clearly the cause of an accident -- for example, when one driver runs a stop sign and crashes into another. In other situations, whether there was a violation will be less obvious -- a common example is a crash that occurs when drivers both merge into a single lane of traffic.
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