You are to have your vehicle under control at all times. first, you rearended a vehicle. second, you rearended a vehicle stopped in traffic. was the stopped vehicle, on the ramp, yielding to oncoming traffic? was it a broken down motorist? was it stopped at a stop sign? your question is missing needed details. how was the other vehicle impeding traffic? the bottomline is this.....99% of the time, a rearend crash is your fault, if you rearend a vehicle from behind. it really does not matter why the other vehicle was stopped. not having control of your vehicle, is a chargeable offense.

I am the person who asked this question and no there were no stop signs yield signs other cars around ect. they stopped ON the ramp for no reason I was cited but have since been to court w/o a lawyer and won there is case law out there that says people cannot stop unnecessarily as many times as they want to see if someone hits them. Since I got a complete dismissal I am in the process of suing them for the damage to my car and $250,000 for negligence and my pain and suffering.

I did not have all the facts, when i answered your original question. i am glad your won your case. there are people that indeed try to cause an accident, in order to collect money. its like an attorney, that chases ambulances looking for a lawsuit.

I have a question for you. Today in Colorado I was dropping my daughter off at a house so she could get her daughter. I was not able to to pull into the drive way because I began to slide and was about to slide into a car. So, I backed out and was parked some what out in the residental street getting to pull in front to the truck that was parked, but before I could a 16 year old girl was going about 20 miles an hour around a curve in the street and slid into me. I had no chance to even move my car. I pulled my car over fearing that more cars would be coming around the corner and did not want something even worse to happen. I had to call the police because the father of the 16 year old girl was becoming very verbally abusive after I told him that we should just exchange insurance info. and I will just make a claim. He flipped out. The police came out and they were on some kind of weather alert due to the snow, the office dismissed me like I was nothing did not even site the girl and there was more than a $1000.00 dollars worth of damage to her car. Do we have any kind of case aginst the 16 year old girl and the police department?

I have one for you, I was coming up a hill going to work the other day, the sun was rizing, it was shining very brightly I could not see so I had slowed down...in the process...before I could stop..there was a van parked in the road heading the wrong direction, no hazards, no headlights on nothing to indicate that it was stoped...I skidded 35 feet to a stop once I hit it head on. He was stopped to help a truck out that was broke down behind him.... The Sherriff gives me a un assured clear distance ticket, he get I don't know what all...but I do know he ended up having to go to court the very next morning was was looking at jail time...it shook me up so bad that I almost passed out ( I am diabetic)...both vehicles had to be towed....mine according to the insurance was a total economic loss. I drove by there two days latter....and I had a flash back...of the crash...was very scary...but could have been alot worse had I not slowed down in the fist place....I was only going 35-40 mph....right after the craszh...three other vehicles almost hit us..including the Sherriff...tis a bad location...

99.9% of all rearend auto accidents are the fault of the driver in behind. Period.