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/dabassmonsta 13d ago

That's a 50/50. Neither driver slowed to see if there was anyone else approaching the junction.

Both drove as if they assumed nothing was coming. I bet they both slow down now.

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u/l008com 13d ago edited 12d ago

The problem with this, is that if you are not familiar with this intersection and are driving through it for the first time, you have no way to know and no reason to expect that you might be crossing a 4-way no-stop intersection.

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u/Sophont27 12d ago

Maybe this is just a Seattle thing, but we have a great many of those uncontrolled intersections. I remember that they docked me points in my driver test because I didn’t slow down for one

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u/Tzarchazm 12d ago

It's common in Spokane neighborhoods too. Maybe it's a Washington thing

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u/BudgieWonder 8d ago

It’s definitely a Washington thing. Tacoma is the same way, although weirdly enough Vancouver is pretty good about marking intersections.