-=> Quoting Mark Raciborski to Amy King <=-
 -> expected to drive at a safe enough distance so that you can stop if t
 -> arises.  Twice my husband has rear-ended the car in front of him beca
 -> had trouble stopping on a rain-slick road.  If he had been a little f
 -> back, he might have been able to stop.  He might not have, but like I
 -> the
 -> line has to be drawn somewhere.
 MR> With all due respect ma'm, you underestamate the force of one car
 MR> hiting anotther. If if a smaller car can flip a '64 impala, a sport
 MR> utility smacking a smaller car cound send it quite a distance.
I know if you are going too fast, you can hit a car and send it quite a ways
forward.  The police might take excessive speed and the size of the car that
started the chain reaction into account, but in Oklahoma, even if you are
stopped behind a car at an intersection, if you hit the first car at the
intersection because you were hit from behind by a moving vehicle, you are
still held accountable for the damages to the first car.  If you don't agee
that you are at fault, you would have to go to court and prove otherwise.
One reason our state does this is so that one insurance company doesn't end 
p
being hit hard with a bunch of claims all at once.  If our state didn't do it
this way, the insurance company might hike up all the rates for all its 
olicy
holders in order to recover its losses.  Then everybody would suffer, not 
ust
the person who started the chain reaction.
Amy King
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