Yes, you do not have the right of way to a car coming down the aisle, it is your responsibility to look for cars. Now if your almost all the way out and changing into drive from reverse and a car hurtles down and smashes into you then I am not sure whose fault it would be.
The person who is backing out of the parking space
Your mum, Steve.
Its logical.........the person who backed out while the other person was at it!
both of you for not looking back
Any time the driver who is backing is at fault, in all 50 states.
if you hit a stationary object - you will most likely be found at fault
The person backing out. If you were in the lane/road behind them they needed to use caution when backing out.
The guy that is walking.
You if you were backing up. If you were waiting at a stop sign or stoplight or even an entrance and someone else hit you, it would be the person behind's fault.
Not in a public parking lot. But if it is a controlled parking low where the employees park and retrieve the cars, the lot owner is responsible. He probably has a sign posted saying he is not responsible for accidents, but he is.
The driver backing up. Unless you can prove the other car was driving unsafly.
I do not feel the the son was at faught because If the tale-end of the car was totally out into the intersection the other driver was to yield to him, especially if passing the son driver was going to cause the driver to go into another lane.