| San Antonio, Texas Rear End Collision I was involved in a rear end collision on Loop 410 in San Antonio. The car infront of me slammed on his breaks and swerved to avoid hitting a 5 gallon bucket, so in turn, I attempted to change lanes and hit the breaks to avoid a collision with him. I noticed the car behind me going too fast, so I accelerated to see if I could get away from her, but I was rear ended.
The police report says: Vehicles moved prior to my arrival. East bound on loop 410 approaching San Pedro, driver said he switched lanes quickly to avoid a possible collision with vehicle ahead who may have stopped for a construction barrel in the roadway when he attempted to switch lanes he just to the left and behind his blind spot, vehicle 2 (me) struck vehicle 1 (the other car) with no injuries.
The diagram show our cars colliding at the rear quarter panel of my car.
The police report is incorrect. I did not hit the vehicle 1, she rear-ended me - you can tell by the damage to the car that she hit me from behind - there is no damage to the back quarter panel, but to the rear of the bumper.
The police report also states code 23 - Failure to drive in single lane and code 4 - Changed lane when unsafe.
Both of these codes are applicaple BEFORE she hit me. I swerved and braked to miss the car in front of me, but when she hit me, I was back in my lane.
I have contacted the officer who wrote the report to make an ammendment.
The insurance is claiming negligible manuevers? and insists the accident was my fault.
I feel like I was successful in avoiding a collision with the vehicle in front of me and she was not successful in avoiding a collision with me...isn't she at fault?
What are my options here? |