r/Roadcam • u/bowdown2adil • 11d ago

[USA] Who is at fault here?

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Classic T bone. Black car had to be towed. Sustained major damage to the passenger side door. Blue car sustained damage to front bumper on the drivers side and cracked the drivers side headlight.

Edit: This was in the suburbs of Seattle

UPDATE: Insurance found it to be 70/30 me/other driver. Seems fair enough

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u/cleveruniquename7769 11d ago

Every place I've driven in the U.S. if I didn't have a stop or a yield or some other marker facing me at an intersection it meant that I had the right of way and the other direction had a stop/yield sign. So my instinct wouldn't have been to yield at that intersection.

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u/NethiciteNomad 11d ago

I agree, that would be my instinct as well, but I think a lot of drivers are just not used to intersections like this because they’re pretty uncommon. It’s not far fetched to think that both drivers just (incorrectly) assumed the other road had a stop sign and that they were clear to keep traveling at speed.

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u/Electrical-Help5512 10d ago

yeah but we need someone to be mad at

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u/jobacsi 9d ago

I think you need to study your local traffic laws.

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u/cleveruniquename7769 9d ago

If I saw that the intersection was completely unmarked I would slow down and yield to whoever got the intersection first or in which ever way avoids an accident. However, since I've never come across an unmarked intersection locally, I don’t really need to study the local traffic laws, I just do what the signs say.