Car accident.. who is at fault here?

[Greenleafants]

I am so stressed so bare with me. Going down the A1 but it’s a single carriageway and turning right into a little side road because I live there. I stop and start Indicating right as there is approaching traffic on other side of the road. I can see a white van approaching my rear at high speed but I still don’t want to turn as there is traffic coming very quickly on other side of road. Then I see a gap but I am really stressed at this point and I stall my car like an absolute fool. So embarrassed. Crash. He goes into the back of me and he was absolutely raging. His van is damaged worse than my car, I have some damage to my bumper but managed to drive home.. I’ll be found at fault for, won't I?

Couldn't have put it any better than @HaventGotAScoob.

His fault, had the exact same thing happen to me earlier this year. Insurance didn't think twice before blaming him and I got full payout.

You did nothing wrong, he's gaslighting you. Don't let a stranger knock your confidence.

Try stalling on a motorway and you'd soon find out.

It would still make no real difference between there and any other road though.
Stallling happens after you've been stationary and setting off again.
So the other cars should already have slowed down and/ir stopped regardless.

this.

How could you stall on a motorway unless you were stationary in the first place?

The car engine could be faulty.

That wouldn't be stalling as much as "breaking down".

Contact the police as he shouldn't have intimidated you like this. Say you felt threatened.

This is why we have insurance. Don't stress about it. No one got hurt.

Raging nutter is a raging nutter.

If you have the right to turn right and are indicating - you shouldn't be stressed by a driver behind you. Nor should that stress you into making a turn before you feel it's safe to do so.

But if you easily get stressed - you might need to consider your route home, such as driving further on until there's a more convenient place to do a u-turn.

You have every right to be on the road. He is an asshole and totally at fault.

Worked in insurance for many years, it's the van drivers fault, you must always be able to stop, and if he couldn't, he wad going too fast. There is no possible way you will be found at fault, not even partially.

Don’t mention stalling as it’s irrelevant and might encourage the van’s insurer to find an excuse to blame you.

They won't find one.
Car behind should not proceed until the one in front moves off
She didn't move off
Stalling is irrelevant

100% he is at fault!!
many years ago I was at a junction and a similar twat drove in to me (causing extreme damage to mine).. the only thing I was concerned about was my child and yet he was hellbent on arguing he wasn’t at fault. I laughed in his face and told him to take a hike or I’d call the police.
Stand your ground every time is my only recommendation as unfortunately intimidation is common in circumstances like these.
I hope you’re ok, I hope the fight with insurance will be minimal (as he WAS at fault) and I hope you don’t come across another driver like that again!

Yes, it’s irrelevant and van man is 100% to blame.

He drove into you when you were waiting to turn. That's his fault. He might have expected you to move, that's irrelevant - he can't just drive into someone as they were slow to move off. Someone drove into the back of my dh when my dh was waiting at a zebra crossing. No question that is was the other guy's fault.

He's an arse. And wrong. Just because he expected you to move off, doesn't mean that you would. He should have allowed for the possibility that you might not have moved and adjusted his speed accordingly.

No you are not at fault. He is 100% to blame and is "raging" because sexism and sense of entitlement.

He should have stopped. Staying travelling at speed on the assumption that you would get out of the way in time is shit driving precisely because he had no way to know if your car would stall etc.

He was an idiot.

This! It is ALWAYS the fault of the person behind. Their responsibility to keep a safe distance and anticipate.
Good luck OP.

Braked not broke

On using the horn. In a case like this, with oncoming traffic, wouldn’t using the horn to alert someone behind you be potentially alarming/confusing to that oncoming traffic? Sometimes using the horn inappropriately can actually create a danger.

He's the bad driver, not you. New drivers stall all the time. Its all part of becoming more experienced.

He is entirely at fault from what you've described, and best of it is, he absolutely knows it himself but couldn't own it instead wanting to bully you.

I've rear ended someone as a new driver, I was absolutely mortified. I did not adjust my driving for what I couldn't yet see ahead of me until it was too late, big lesson learned for me. And absolutely no fault of the poor folk I hit. Your man should have been as apologetic to you, but there's a relevant saying about pigs grunting 🤣

Don't let this knock your confidence OP!

Really… do you need some help understanding?
Wow could you be any more condescending. I've been driving for about 25 years thanks.

Given my friend on a motorbike was behind a car at the traffic lights and his insurance held him liable for damage to a car rolling BACK on a downhill slope at a traffic lights by his insurance (and despite one witness saying he was stationary with 1 foot on ground and the car in front rolled back), I can safely say in any query it is ALWAYS the car behind considered at fault for not stopping.

The only time this will help is if the driver is on their phone/not looking at the road at all.

If a driver looking square at you from behind can't see you or judge the stopping time a horn will do nothing but confuse everyone around you.