I live in massachusetts and I was in a car accident last year during the first week of Decemeber. I was at a stop sign, came to a complete stop and was trying to cross a main street. I looked to the left and noticed a car about 80feet away and then to the right where it was clear. I then attempted to cross the intersection and that car ran into the side of my car. The damage was bad and my grandmother in the back was hurt badly. She suffered a fractured jaw and a messed up ankle that is now still not fully recovered. When they hit my car, we spun about 90 degrees so that we were now facing the opposite direction of the car that hit me.
The police guy said that it was my fault for failing to yield which is okay because they did have right of way, but that lady purposely sped into me. No way in hell could she make it to me that quick doing speed limit. When we crashed I had to crawl through the passenger side of the car and when I got out I looked at the driver of the other car and she was on her cell phone laughing and shit. Who knows if she spoke english or not but the passenger of that car lived nearby which about 6 streets down or so. There was also a witness that said that he "thinks" i didn't ocme to a complete stop which was like total bullshit. When I was at the intersection waiting for the cars to clear there was nobody outside. Who just stands outside for fun on a cold ass winter morning?
Well now, theyre suing my mothers car insurance. And since her insurance doesnt cover that much because my grandma's suing my moms insurance too, they're going to be suing us. All we have is our house now, so they're trying to get us to sell out house so that they can get their 100k theyre asking for. Today though, I just found out that INCLUDING them suing my mom, they were going to sue me because I was at fault of the accident. They're planning to sue me 100k too. I'm 21 and an unemployed college student. My mom told me that theyre going to try and sue me so that when I do start working, I'm going to be paying that 100k theyre suing me too.
What am I supposed to do? Can they sue that much? Theyre not even that hurt. I mean they had front impact and we had side? Id put my money that the people in my car was 10x hurt than they were but since it was my fault theyre trying to milk whatever they can. Is there anything I can do to prove that she purposely sped into me?
** Oh yea, where I live, its VERY COMMON for people to run accident scams. Like claim theyre just dying so they can collect from the insurance company. Blah, this really sucks!

