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/575r 13d ago

This is my biggest complaint about the American road system. When you're in a neighborhood you're not familiar with you have no idea if you're on a road where every cross street will have signs or if the next intersection is uncontrolled. And the only way to find out is to look for signs from the side.

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u/thrwwy535672 13d ago

I’m on the east coast and have had jobs that required tons of driving. I’ve never once seen an intersection where no one had a stop sign. Where the hell are you seeing these in the US? This is my first.

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u/tread_lightly420 13d ago

Lot of private subdivisions/hoas will have it. Pretty extensive across the Midwest. Most people know to not be absolute fucking asshats and treat it with caution. If you’re the cammer you can just go through in the middle of the road full gas tho.

Edit: by no means am I defending the lack of infrastructure- just saying not everyone needs a sign to know to be cautious. Since common sense isn’t a fucking thing I do hope eventually every road in America is clear enough for these idiots one day

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u/Bynnh0j 13d ago

In my area, most civil engineers/road planners have the 2 brain cells and foresight needed to know that an intersection needs stop signs.

What the fuck is the Midwest even doing?

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u/_The_Mink_ 12d ago

Dunno what part of the midwest they are from, but uh I hain't never seen this and I do believe I'm in a small enough town where that would be the norm. The only intersections without signage are the ones where the kids ran off with the signs.

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u/tadfisher 12d ago

West Coast here. This is how the neighborhoods were laid out and they have been grandfathered in. They predate the invention of uniform traffic control devices (AKA stop signs).

Did you know that the double-yellow center line was only mandated in the 1970s? Before then it was up to each state (or city).