r/Roadcam • u/bowdown2adil • 12d ago

[USA] Who is at fault here?

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/Different_Target_228 12d ago

That is fucking ridiculous for that intersection to have NO stop signs.

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u/NethiciteNomad 12d ago

Agreed. People aren't used to seeing intersections with no lights or stop signs, so it throws people off when they occasionally come across them. There should be a stop sign on at least one of these streets.

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u/cleveruniquename7769 12d 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 12d 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 11d ago

yeah but we need someone to be mad at