I am going to be fighting my citation next week. I was involved in an accident in March and cited for Failure to Yield. I was traveling on a 2 way street w/ a stop sign and had to cross a 7 lane intersection (did not have a stop sign). YES, I did come to a complete stop. There was traffic going both ways on the 7 lane street. When things were all clear, I proceeded to cross the intersection. During that time, I was looking both ways and of course looking what is a head of me. Just as my front end was entering the end of the intersection, I heard a honk from an on coming vehicle and head lights (the sun had just completly gone down 1900 hr). I still continued to cross and he impacted me in the rear side panel of my vehicle. He was traveling in between the storage/parking lane and the traffic lane itself. As he impacted me, my rear end (Isuzu Rodeo vs Nissan Pathfinder) spun around and came to a complete stop facing the way I was traveling. The damage to my vehicle was where one would fill the tank and his was almost his whole front end. When we came to a complete stop, I was about 5 steps away from the instersection on the other side that is. I had asked the other driver as I was pointing to the house right on the corner of the intersection where he came from and if it was from there. He said yes. The police came to investigate. One, I had asked how fast he was going, he said about 30 mph (there were no skid marks to measure, got pictures w/in 24/48 hrs). Two on the report, he stated in the diagram that I had been broadsided when in fact it was the rear passenger side. Three, the driver of the other vehicle did not have plates on it, the police officer had the plate on his motorcycle w/ the regestration sticker still in the plastic packet on the regestration paper, most of all, the regestration was due to expire the end of March (didn't have plates on vehicle for a year). The officer never asked my side of the story and put words in my mouth on the report, things that I did not say. I told him at the time of signing the citation, that I stopped and crossed when there was no one coming. is this going to be a waste of my time or should I eat the ticket. Road conditions were fine and street lights were on. One more question, no one can answer me on this. What is considered the proper distance to yield to on coming traffic? I wouldn't have crossed if I knew that it wasn't safe to do so. I no longer take that route to go home. I go up a few streets more to where everyone has to yield. Thanks for reading this and I hope you can help me. No one will asst. due to the fact "I had the stop sign". 
