Closest to home you have had a accident

[jeffandnicole]

2 accidents in front of my house in the middle of a residential street...both of them involving the opposing driveway, and none of them involving me.

The 1st was an unoccupied flatbed tow truck parked in the driveway across the street.  The brakes let go and the truck rolled back into my front-yard fence, barely missing a vehicle parked in front of my house.  The driver (who came out of the house only after the police arrived), even stated as much to the cop...luckily for him no tickets were issued.  My wife, who was home at the time, said a car in the street was honking at the empty tow truck trying to get the non-existent driver to move the truck!

2nd accident involved my cousin's vehicle - just after a family gathering, he moved his vehicle in front of my driveway to load up some stuff.  A neighbor's friend backed out of his driveway (next to the one mentioned above), didn't see my cousin's SUV and backed into the front end of it. 

[Special K]

2 accidents in front of my house in the middle of a residential street...both of them involving the opposing driveway, and none of them involving me.

Post disqualified.

[kphoger]

I believe my wife's grandparents have also backed out of their driveway at the exact same time the neighbors across the street backed out of theirs.  Crunch!  I wonder how common this is; it must be fairly common.

[Mr_Northside]

I believe my wife's grandparents have also backed out of their driveway at the exact same time the neighbors across the street backed out of theirs.  Crunch!  I wonder how common this is; it must be fairly common.

Just saw that live, and in person, last Friday.
The realty guy was fixing the screens on the porch at the house we were staying at in Chincoteague.  When the guy was done and backing his truck out, some car on a driveway, directly opposite ours, was backing out on to the road at the exact same time.
I don't know if they didn't see each other, or just assumed the other was going to wait, but it became obvious (at least, I called it) they were gonna hit each other.  CRUNCH indeed.  Though it was very low speed, and I couldn't easily notice any major damage from the porch.

To add insult to injury, at that time, it started pouring, so they were dealing with all the paperwork and stuff... and a cop even showed up (it didn't seem like it was that major... I'd imagine a Pittsburgh cop would be annoyed being called for something like that) in heavy rain. 

[agentsteel53]

how is fault assigned in such a seemingly symmetrical situation?  50/50?