Legal Question in Insurance Law in Wisconsin

I'm not sure what you mean by the "wrong lane," although I understand that either lane might have been wrong for you when you hit the car in it, while backing out. Generally speaking, the car on the arterial street has right of way over any vehicle entering it from a private driveway, so you might have some liability problems here. Right of way can be forfeited, however, by various violations of the rules of the road (the most common one being speed in an intersection accident). I am not sure if traveling in a lane other than the one designated for his direction of travel could forfeit right of way or not without researching this rather rare issue. Other than those comments, you don't tell us enough detail here for us to offer you much more.

The liability rules are more ambiguous if this all happened in a private parking lot, where the rules of the road may not even apply at all. All of this being said, however, an experienced traffic lawyer could still probably get you a substantial reduction of the citation. If you had no insurance, a bankruptcy lawyer might be able to save your license if , if you are eligible for bankruptcy discharge.

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