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nkarim
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What is the name of your state? CA
> I mountain bike with a friend every saturday
> morning, and sometimes he picks me up from my
> house and we go together.
>
> My house has a motorized gate at the front of the
> driveway which opens for 45 secs and then closes.
>
> We came back, I opened the
> gate and we drove in. I took my stuff off the
> car, and then he started to back up down the
> driveway.
>
> He says that he looked down the driveway and
> saw the gate was open and then continued to
> back up down the driveway, but he never looked
> back through the rear windshield. Instead he
> was watching the driveway on the ground out the
> driver side window, so that he could keep the
> car backing straight down the driveway.
>
> After 45 secs the gate started to close, when
> the sensor saw a car coming the gate apparently
> stopped moving, which is a safety feasture of the gate.
>
> He did not see the gate move as he was not
> looking thru the rear windshield, and hit the
> gate causing no visible damage to the car, and
> about $1000 damage to the gate, and also bumped
> his forehead somewhere in the car which caused
> a minor cut.
>
> Q: WHO'S FAULT IS THIS?
>
> My reason for asking is that though I certainly
> plan to deal with this in a gentlemanly
> fashion, he seems to be quite angry about the
> incident, and has told me that he has spoken to
> several friends and general consensus is that
> this is my fault. Therefore I suspect he feels
> angry that I should ask him to share the cost
> of the repair, since he considers it is
> entirely my fault.
>
> I feel it is his fault as he was not looking
> where he was driving, but mostly I want to move
> on, and hopefully maintain my friendship with
> him.
Does any one know who is at fault?
> I mountain bike with a friend every saturday
> morning, and sometimes he picks me up from my
> house and we go together.
>
> My house has a motorized gate at the front of the
> driveway which opens for 45 secs and then closes.
>
> We came back, I opened the
> gate and we drove in. I took my stuff off the
> car, and then he started to back up down the
> driveway.
>
> He says that he looked down the driveway and
> saw the gate was open and then continued to
> back up down the driveway, but he never looked
> back through the rear windshield. Instead he
> was watching the driveway on the ground out the
> driver side window, so that he could keep the
> car backing straight down the driveway.
>
> After 45 secs the gate started to close, when
> the sensor saw a car coming the gate apparently
> stopped moving, which is a safety feasture of the gate.
>
> He did not see the gate move as he was not
> looking thru the rear windshield, and hit the
> gate causing no visible damage to the car, and
> about $1000 damage to the gate, and also bumped
> his forehead somewhere in the car which caused
> a minor cut.
>
> Q: WHO'S FAULT IS THIS?
>
> My reason for asking is that though I certainly
> plan to deal with this in a gentlemanly
> fashion, he seems to be quite angry about the
> incident, and has told me that he has spoken to
> several friends and general consensus is that
> this is my fault. Therefore I suspect he feels
> angry that I should ask him to share the cost
> of the repair, since he considers it is
> entirely my fault.
>
> I feel it is his fault as he was not looking
> where he was driving, but mostly I want to move
> on, and hopefully maintain my friendship with
> him.
Does any one know who is at fault?