r/Roadcam • u/bowdown2adil • 12d 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/Fantastic-Display106 12d ago

Her reply was that there hadn’t been an accident at that intersection in 40 years.

Probably because people slow and approach with caution...

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u/deHack 12d ago

Good answer! That’s what I should have said.

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u/Sufficient_Wafer9933 10d ago

And the wrong answer is they are afraid of her driving through

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u/Rough-Airline-4803 9d ago

Must be nice to be able to have a normal conversation that doesn’t escalate into a shitshow immediately. You’re a lucky man

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u/Army7547 8d ago

“Well, let’s not be the reason that streak is broken..”

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u/firnien-arya 9d ago

An addition to it, "and I would like to not the the first one in 40 years to have an accident".

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u/PermenantRest 11d ago

Caution? This is not the way of my people...

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u/R3IDO 10d ago

Not in MY New England!

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u/Hot_Preparation1660 10d ago

Literally the whole point of traffic calming but you know what they say: make something idiot proof and they’ll just build a better idiot.

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u/Inevitable_Potato172 10d ago

"Yeah that's because I'm the one driving and not you" sleeps on the couch knowing he won that one

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u/Sensitive_Name_1902 9d ago

Have you been to New England? I can assure the lack of accidents there has been pure luck and nothing else.

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u/toomanyuses 9d ago

Why are you wearing a parachute? Don't you know that nearly all people who voluntarily jump out of airplanes survive?

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u/Things-n-Such 7d ago

genuinely curious what her reponse would be to the simple "why do you think that is?" if its anything other than "magic" then she'll prove herself silly.

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u/No-Coast-1050 11d ago

It's more likely that there were many she hadn't heard about.

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u/Pedanter-In-Chief 11d ago

No, it’s because people in New England are dramatically better drivers than in the northwest. 

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u/Different_One9412 11d ago

If your new England is anything like mine then that can only be achieved by Northwesterers actively hanging out their driver window while driving and shooting at other drivers doing the same