That's the way the law officially reads here, too.... which can be a bit of a problem.
Let me recount a short story, if you will. A few years back, my sister was driving along, and came through a small town late at night. As she approached an oddly darkened intersection, she was surprised to find herself plowing into the back of another car. Seems the individual had parked there, conveniently under a broken streetlight, immediately in front of an intersection, with his lights off, late at night, to run upstairs to his apartment to get something, and not returned... in hours.
Now, in any sane world, this is obviously not my sister's fault. But Indiana law is clear: if you rear-end someone, you are at fault. Thus the whole mess became much more complicated than it needed to be because somebody thought a blanket, zero-tolerance style policy was the best idea.
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Date: 2006-01-17 08:05 am (UTC)Let me recount a short story, if you will. A few years back, my sister was driving along, and came through a small town late at night. As she approached an oddly darkened intersection, she was surprised to find herself plowing into the back of another car. Seems the individual had parked there, conveniently under a broken streetlight, immediately in front of an intersection, with his lights off, late at night, to run upstairs to his apartment to get something, and not returned... in hours.
Now, in any sane world, this is obviously not my sister's fault. But Indiana law is clear: if you rear-end someone, you are at fault. Thus the whole mess became much more complicated than it needed to be because somebody thought a blanket, zero-tolerance style policy was the best idea.