Amber-Light Left Turns

Hi there! Just a question regarding left turns. I recently was in an accident and this is what happened: I was travelling straight and in the opposite direction there was a left turner claiming the intersection. The light had turned yellow but there was no time/room to make a safe legal stop; if I would have stopped I would have ended up in the middle of the intersection-- driver's ed taught me that if there was no way to safely stop, to proceed. So i proceeded(did not speed up to try and make the light or anything, just continued on normally) and this left turner was not paying attention and began to turn, which resulted in him hitting me. It was to my knowledge that right-of-way would work the same as it normally does if there are two vehicles in an intersection at a yellow light. This is what I've seen happen many times and I myself have been that left turner at a yellow who had to wait for the oncoming car going straight to get through. Who was in the wrong here?? Who gets right of way at an amber light in a situation like this??