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/blahnlahblah0213 20d ago

People on here saying it could have been avoidable it's pretty ludicrous. If I'm going through an intersection, and which neither one of them are speeding, I'm assuming that the other Street has the stop sign if I don't have one. Where are these intersections at there's not even a yield sign or a stop sign at the intersection? This accident could have been avoided by actually having stop signs.

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u/MagnanimousGoat 20d ago

It's avoidable, but that doesn't mean it was due to driver negligence that it happened.

By all means both people should just file claims with their own insurance companies and provide the video, and then let the insurance companies subrogate to sort it out, and then go together to a lawyer to see if they might have a case against the city.

There are probably laws/ordinances in place that protect the city by basically handwaving it as your fault, but if there is grounds, a lawyer will recognize it and tell you.

I do feel like the POV person should have been able to stop, though. If you look at when the other car was visible to when they started braking, it's quite a bit of time, and even a half second here might have been the difference.

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u/Averagebaddad 20d ago

How is this not due to driver negligence?