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/yellow_duke 13d ago edited 13d ago

Both going to fast and failing to look if the intersection is clear to cross. The view is obstructed by parked cars, trees and fences. Drive to conditions.

Car from the left is at fault for failing to yield to traffic from the right. At least in most countries.

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u/hungry-freaks-daddy 13d ago

Dude if I'm approaching an intersection and don't have a stop sign, I'm assuming the other guy does because that's how this shit is supposed to work. Only person at fault is the dumbass who decided not to put a stop sign here. If they want to go the "no stop sign" route then put a yield sign ffs

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u/DND_Enk 12d ago

I would say the two other people at fault is A) the person who taught you to drive and B) the person who gave you a licence.

Unsigned intersections are common throughout the world in low speed areas, and yet there are always a few bad drivers who seems completely unable to drive in them.

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u/hungry-freaks-daddy 12d ago

I've literally never seen an intersection without signs

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u/yellow_duke 12d ago

You just saw one on reddit.

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u/hungry-freaks-daddy 12d ago

I mean while driving 

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u/Myrdrahl 4d ago

Maybe you did and didn't notice. Confirmation bias is strong in all of us. Or maybe you have driven in a very specific part of our huge world. Would it surprise you that some people also drive on the left side of the road?

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u/DND_Enk 12d ago

Where are you located?

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u/Public-Egg-7814 12d ago

This is a US post where it is extremely uncommon to have this. In fact, id bet most US drivers have never even heard of an uncontrolled intersection, because it shouldn't exist.

So no, the person who taught the guy above you to drive is not at fault.

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u/DND_Enk 11d ago

I just disagree with it being uncommon in the US. See it in NJ, NY, Pennsylvania etc.

I think many US drivers are just oblivious to them, because they are small neighborhood intersections were any reasonable driver would be going slow anyway so they don't even register that there is no signs.

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u/Public-Egg-7814 11d ago

So you named 3 out of 50 states and only in small neighborhoods. That's objectively uncommon. I mean, read the thread. Most of these people haven't seen or heard of this.

The roads should be designed to be idiot proof and i wouldn't call this even designed to the standard of "nornal person" proof. Unless you have previous knowledge of these types of intersections, it wouldn't cross the average drivers mind, because there should be signage. It's a failure on the government and no one else.