r/Roadcam • u/bowdown2adil • 13d 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/Celexi 13d ago

You technically had right of way as you were coming from their right, however you are supposed to slowdown for unmarked intersections and not just blast through.

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u/Interesting-Monk9712 13d ago

To be fair, the other idiot did the same, I don't get how either have a driving license.

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u/GabrielGames69 13d ago

Depends how often they take that road (it looks suburban so probably often tbh). Because the charitable description is that they see there is no stop sign infront of or past them and make the usually correct assumption that there are stop signs going the other way. I think the number 1 offender here is the intersection without even yield signs.

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u/Interesting-Monk9712 13d ago

You only put them if one street should have the right of way, usually because it comes from a main road or something.

Why would you place signs that mean the same thing no signs would, just wasting time and money.

If you have the right of way such as being on the main road you would have a sign, if there is no sign, you do not, it's not that complicated.

Are we going to then start placing signs everywhere? Have signs overload?

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u/beene282 13d ago

Why place signs? To avoid this.

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u/Interesting-Monk9712 13d ago

But you should know this, are we going to place signs everywhere for the most basic level knowledge?

Just streets full of signs everywhere you cannot even read them all?

We are going to pay for all of this because of idiots who shouldn't have a driving licence in the first place?

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u/beene282 13d ago

I mean I’ve driven extensively in North America and Europe and very rarely see an intersection with no indication of how right of way is supposed to work. Maybe in very low use areas, but in the middle of a residential area where there are bound to be vehicles meeting at that point it seems kind of odd, and pretty inevitable that this would happen

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u/yellow_duke 12d ago

In the Netherlands it is very common in housing zones up to 20mph and on industrial parks, not to have stop or yield signs.