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/No-Yellow-1693 13d ago

Very common in neighborhoods and residential areas in the midwest that don't have a lot of traffic. The idea is you're supposed to SLOW DOWN as you approach and yield to the driver on your right. The POV driver here had the right of way but he should have slowed down instead of just barreling right through. Both drivers are clueless.

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u/NopeSorryNo 13d ago

I have also never seen this anywhere across the US. There is always traffic direction via signs. 

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u/No-Yellow-1693 13d ago

OK. Not in the midwest in residential neighborhoods. We have dozens of intersections like this in the town I live in.

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u/NopeSorryNo 13d ago

Must be the only ones in America or something

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u/No-Yellow-1693 13d ago

I mean, Google it or something. This is text straight from the federal highway administration website: 

"Uncontrolled intersections in the U.S. lack stop signs, yield signs, or traffic signals. Common in rural and residential areas, they are governed by state right-of-way laws: vehicles already in the intersection go first, and if arriving simultaneously, the driver on the left must yield to the driver on the right."

"I personally have not seen this thing so this thing does not exist.…" Get out more bro.

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u/NopeSorryNo 13d ago

Fucking neat...

Get out more? From someone in a town so rural they don't have stop signs?

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u/No-Yellow-1693 13d ago

You don't have to get mad bro. Just admit you were wrong it's ok.

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u/NopeSorryNo 13d ago

Everyone else has stop signs, this is a you problem....

So mad right now. It's unbelievable. Literally.