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Originally Posted by legion
It depends on your state laws, and I'm not sure what they are for Florida.
Either #5 pays for all, or #4 pays you and you pay #3.
IMO, #5 should pay all. I understand the logic of #5 pays #4, #4 pays #3 and so on, and it should apply when you are moving, but if you have stopped and managed to not cause a crash, it should all be on the party that caused the whole incident. Sure, it's easy to space out enough so that only #4 gets hit by #5 if #5 is doing 30 mph, but what if #5 is doing 90 mph? Should you have to account for that kind of spacing?
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You are correct in all your assumptions but assumptions are not law. What happens is that someone contests whether all were absolutely stopped. You can't prove that ever, so it just goes to a default ruling. You can't assign a speed cutoff either. No difference between 30 and 90 except for the additional charge of reckless driving.
In that scenario, the rest of it would be decided in civil court.