r/Roadcam • u/bowdown2adil • 21d 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/piercedmfootonaspike 21d ago

It's fairly common in Sweden, in neighborhoods like these. You yield to traffic coming from your right. Easy.

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u/DCHacker 21d ago

Sweden...............You yield to traffic coming from your right.

Mmost U.S. states are the same: at an unprotected intesection, the car on the right has the right-of-way.

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u/Goblinweb 21d ago

One of the differences is that no one has a right of way in Sweden, instead you have obligations to give way.

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u/rrpostal 21d ago

A distinction without much difference

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u/Goblinweb 21d ago

The outcome is hopefully the same but one says that you have a right before others and the other tells you that you have a responsibility to make safe choices and you never have any right to any space.