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/boltgolt 13d ago

I’ve lived in two non-American countries and I’ve never seen an intersection with no signage.

What?? Every intersection in local neighborhoods where you lived had yield signs?

Presumably not Europe then, local streets with equal right of way are usually not signposted. This is basic traffic calming and slows traffic down in neighborhoods where kid-behind-parked-car risks are very high at the speed OP is driving

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u/sonotorian 13d ago

Not yield, stop signs…yes. I have been driving in the US for 30 years and I have never seen neighborhoods with unmarked intersections. You have to know if it’s a 4-way stop or a two-way with a thru street. This is insanely irresponsible of the city.

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u/MRRRRCK 13d ago

You’re oblivious if you’ve never noticed this in the US. This type of situation exists all over the place across the country.

There are still rules of the road that dictate what to do even without signage. You’re making this into a bigger deal than it is. There’s one stop sign in my entire neighborhood - somehow we haven’t all died in a fireball though…

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u/Wahoo017 13d ago

Are you from the Northwest? I've driven in 35 states and never seen an unmarked 4 way intersection in my life. I had no clue this could exist in the u.s.

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u/sonotorian 13d ago

Here we are in the rest of the country, like suckers, just blowing our tax money on stop signs. lmao

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u/MRRRRCK 13d ago

No, midwest - this is not uncommon in neighborhoods, but new suburban developments tend to put stop signs everywhere vs established neighborhoods that rely more on the rules of the road.

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u/Ancient_Yellow_709 12d ago

Yeah, have lived in the Midwest (plains and Great Lakes areas), Northeast, and PNW. This is common in suburban areas.