Yes, it is very unfortunate, and I am finding it very stressful. I believe it was not necessary for him to brake. There were two lanes on each side of the road, and we were about 450m away from each other when I made the U-turn. Thank you for your responses, I really appreciate it. I have no idea what I'll be facing in court, and really don't want a long drawn out insurance battle. I'm meeting with a paralegal next week, because I really don't feel like I was at fault, and I don't know how I could have done things differently. Another accident in that location was imminent imo because there wa...

The first location I turned around in was a gas station. This situation was on a highway, and if I had continued driving in the same direction I was facing, there wouldn't have been another place to turn around until I got to town, unless I turned around in someone's driveway. The conditions were pretty bad. I had already avoided being hit twice in town (from people sliding through the intersection when I had a green. Being a defensive driver though I saw that they wouldn't be stopping in time). The person ahead of me who lost control was only doing about 60km/hr before she slid to the bottom ...

I was charged for failing to yield, but I believe fault should be on weather conditions. Person ahead of me lost control of their vehicle at the top of a hill. i turned around at a safe place further up the road, then pulled up behind them to make sure they were okay (they were). Leaving the scene, I pulled a U-turn onto the highway to drive in my original direction. A vehicle at the top of the hill *almost half a kilometer* away put on their brakes as they were about to go down the hill, and lost control of their vehicle in the same location as the first accident. They said they put on the br...