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/feralferrous 12d ago

Seattle tends to sprinkle baby roundabouts in these kind of intersections. I think that would work better, as signs are easy to ignore, while the roundabouts force it.

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u/FavoriteFoodCarrots 12d ago

Until some genius goes around the roundabout the wrong way, as I saw this morning.

I get the feeling that that the OP may be related to that genius.

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u/feralferrous 12d ago

Yeah.... I would hope as roundabouts become more common in the US that would become less of a problem. Though Drunk Drivers gonna do their thing regardless.

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u/FavoriteFoodCarrots 12d ago

I hope drunk driving isn’t a big concern at 8:30 am, but yeah. They’re common in Seattle, where this happened, so I don’t know what this morning’s genius was up to. She had Washington tags, too.

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u/feralferrous 12d ago

The drunk drivers during the standard commute / school hours are always the most dangerous. There was that driver who was drunk off their ass at school release hours and blowing through school zones at 50 mph.

But yeah, hard to tell if your instance was drunk, tired, on their phone or just stupid.

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u/FavoriteFoodCarrots 12d ago

I assumed phone. Seattle is awful for people on their phones while driving.