[vettestr]

Joe,
I read your post a couple of times to better understand or at the least get the quotes correct.
More to the point or your post as I understood it, people were willing to blame the RAV4 driver but she was a victim of the original accident. Is that your point???

If you made the point we should be willing to hold all to the same standards of responsibility for the action and outcome I would tend to accept that. If you contend the RAV4 was the victim of the first accident B.S. and not responsible for driving into a parked cars and a parked car with flashing lights on top B.S. B. S. B. S.

Stuart was involved in an accident .......... I really do not know if anybody else would not have wrecked given same circumstances and timing. He was the driver and he did wreck. He did not impact another car but wrecked regardless.

The RAV4 driver had the phone in hand when dust settled but she is responsible with or without the phone for her own actions.

To Quote you directly Joe = But the statement that broke my back was.
“Once again the stupidity of one person’s actions can change the fate of many”
Could not have been any closer to the truth, could it Joe?