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the accident was caused by the bus behind that car not leaving sufficient room to slow down safely or not paying enough attention, they therefore had to take avoiding action and in doing so caused the collision.
The only evidence that this is the case comes from the OP.
If he saw the bus going too fast/close to the car in front and having to take avoiding action, why did he then pull out in front of it?!
Frankly I'm not at all convinced that the events are as described.
At the end of the day the accident was caused by one vehicle pulling out onto the road in front of another vehicle.
and he explicitly stated that he was only looking at the flashing car, not anything past it, so yeah... can't say 100% for certain what exactly the bus actually did...The only evidence that this is the case comes from the OP.
Well the only evidence we have that there was a collision at all is from the OP. If we are just going to say he's making stuff up perhaps we should blame Colonel Mustard with the candlestick.
I do agree his description seems a bit fishy really.
theotherjonv wrote what I've been thinking through most of this thread. An interesting question might be, what speeds were everyone doing?
The flasher allegedly stopped rather than slowed down. Who does this? Easing off to give someone space, sure. But actually stopping dead in traffic?
The OP was t-boned by a bus, yet wasn't turned into flatpack furniture. The bus must either have been passing pretty slowly - which is likely if the driver was responding to the car in front slowing and stopping - or wasn't paying attention and managed to scrub a lot of speed in a bus. Are panic-swerving buses known for their emergency stop capabilities?
The only explanation that makes any sense to me is that the flasher stopped; the bus driver decided to drive around the stationary car (why, when the car wasn't parked?); and the waiting OP looked left and saw the flash, looked right and saw that it was clear, then hoofed it out of his driveway without looking left again where he would otherwise have observed the bus which was by then practically on top of him.
So we have a stationary flasher, a low-speed bus, and a suddenly accelerating OP. The other two drivers were both idiots, but what caused the crash was the OP thinking "ooh, I can get out of here if I'm quick" and standing on the loud pedal without looking properly.
Here endeth the Wild Speculation entry. 😁
Hopefully the bus will have a gps linked dashcam which records speed and pictures.
Or the bus driver using his mobile immediately before the collision, hemce the swerve and not stop line astern.