I wish I'd had a go-pro when this bloke in a Morris Minor pulled out in front of me in the mid-1960's when I was about 16..

As a matter of interest do forum members think him or me was to blame?
With the aid of photoshop and a goog streetview of the actual scene, here's a dramatic reconstruction of the incident-
It happened almost under the Humberstone Road (Leicester) railway bridge on a dull drizzly day, I was on my bike at 'X' when he emerged slowly from a garage forecourt along the red arrow and stopped to wait for a gap in the traffic.
I hit my brakes (not very effective in the rain) and began turning left down the yellow arrow to avoid him, but failed by a few inches and shaved off his rearlight-
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And to add to my embarrasment, my bike was JAMMED UPRIGHT in the narrow gap between his bodywork and bumper ! (below, this is a stock net image).
I'd gone over the handlebars and was sitting dazed in the road (no injuries) and the driver had to tug the bike out of the gap.
He was a decent chap, he suggested it was my fault without accusing me directly, and a young bloke came from the garage as a "witness" and said I wasn't looking where I was going, which was baloney, but I was too dazed to speak.
I gave the driver my name and address (no police were involved) and that evening he called round and my dad paid him for the damage to his rearlight with no hard feelings on either side.
(Incidentally my front wheel was mashed, and even the back wheel was buckled, but luckily there was a bike shop nearby so I'd carried the wreck there to have new wheels fitted).
BUT ever since then i've been wondering whether it really was my fault?
How do you think Judge Judy would have ruled?
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