re: Hypothetical legal question regarding a driving scenario

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A is 100% at fault

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not necessarily. even though just about everyone would think so. a similar event happened to my wife. she was merging east on a four lane divided highway (divided by a grass median] from the north. she had to cross the west bound traffic the get to the merge lane that would eventually merge into the eastbound left lane. after crossing the westbound lanes, and beginning to accelerate a car passed her sliding sideways and flipped over into the median. when my wife got into the merge lane, a car that was in the left eastbound lane, thought my wife was pulling out in front of her, tried to get into the right lane, but a truck was there that she side swiped causing her to lose control and wreck. in the end my insurance paid for half of the damages to the other vehicles even though my wifes car never came into contact with the other car or got into the lane.