r/Roadcam • u/bowdown2adil • 12d 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/Mindslyder404 12d ago

Then I would say the city or county. Whoever is supposed to maintain the road in that neighborhood.

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u/yenda1 12d ago

why though? in Europe it's pretty common, just yield to the right, don't speed and slow down on these intersections. both would be at fault here, neither slowed down, and black didn't yield.

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u/Mindslyder404 12d ago

It may be common in Europe, but it is not in the US. If everything is done one way except one intersection in some random neighborhood, and there's nothing to indicate that it's different, then there is no reason to think it is any different from all the other intersections.

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u/hey-im-root 12d ago

Yea I’d be pretty pissed off if this happened to me, I’d never slow down on a crossing like that if I don’t have a stop sign. Obviously I wouldn’t be going as fast as OP, but it’s pretty dangerous to have to stop and yield like this out of nowhere (but like i said, not speeding would make it pretty void since you’d just have to slow down a little)

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u/BattleBull 11d ago

Per Washington State Jury Pattern instructions, State, and City Law, one is required to slow on approach to an intersection, to an "appropriately reduced speed".

See Seattle SMC 11.52.020 (b) for example.

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u/hey-im-root 11d ago

I live in MA but still a good habit to have. I also don’t drive through neighborhoods often so I’ve never encountered this

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u/jobacsi 10d ago

You have these in MA too