Right of way

[Franco Cozzo]

I had an interesting encounter today while driving home from work, here is a little scenario I drawn up to show:



The numbered boxes are cars, the red dots on them are indicators and the coloured arrows are in which direction they are going to turn

I'm the blue box numbered 1, wanting to turn left onto the main road there, there are lots of cars moving down the road I want to get on, directly opposite me, there is green box 2 wanting to turn left onto the same road road. What happened is we both spotted a gap, and both made our turns at the same time, and we both nearly had a very slow motion accident where he would have hit the back of my car, who would have been at fault here?

I didn't actually realise we had both turned at the same time as I seen a gap and went for it, until I looked in the rear vision mirror with the other car right up my *** as I got onto the main road.

I'm not sure, apart from these roads around work I don't usually drive in metro areas, so not used to lots of traffic and I'm not sure entirely how things work on busy multi laned/intersection roads.