Quote: Ferocious Aardvark "You need to keep your eye on the ball. The law expects you to make one last check in your mirrors and blind spot immediately BEFORE you manoeuvre. Not after. For the reasons I cut and pasted.'"
And which part of the very clear advice I gave of "Mirror...Signal...Mirror... Manoeuvre" do you feel is at odds with this?
Quote: Ferocious Aardvark "You could say it is stating the bleedin obvious, to say that once you've made your final check, then you look where you're planning to go before you actually set off. (Although very often people don't.)'"
Where does it say that the OP had stopped? Unless it was a very tight entrance, or was obstructed by pedestrians, he would simply have indicated right....slowed down.... and if safe to do so, turned into his drive. That he was aware that there was a motorcyclist behind, would indicate to most people he had checked his mirrors, and I am sure in reply to the question, "when did you last check" would give the answer, (as rehed with his own solicitor, "of immediatly before starting to turn!" Your assertion that any liability can be apportioned to the car driver, after following the above is ludicrous. How on earth can blame be apportioned (to the car driver) for the random actions of another road user who is clearly in breach of the Highway Code recommendations on overtaking? Surely, being a complete is not seen as a postive attribute?
Quote: Ferocious Aardvark "
The word is "craning". I do not crane nor does the glance into the blind spot take more than a mere fraction of a second. But crack on making ridiculous stuff up.'"
Yes, as one gets older, you do loose a bit of flexibility in the old neck muscles.
Quote: Ferocious Aardvark "Your proposition that "All reasonable steps had been taken" is, I'm afraid, unsupportable hogwash. I can only comment (as we have nothing else to go on) about the evidence in the current version of Peckerwood's witness statement
I rather think my unsupportable hogwash would carry the day, whether in Peckerwoods case, or in general. Common sense does kick in eventually in the legal System, and I suspect the Magistrate would be inclined to dismiss your thoughts, which if followed to their logical conclusion, would have no one risking a right turn without getting out, checking all around their car. making sure there was no other vehicle within a couple of hundred yards, prior to going for it!