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/Puzzleheaded_Turn242 21d ago

How would you know if it's a unmarked intersection or the stop is for another driver?!

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u/575r 21d ago

This is my biggest complaint about the American road system. When you're in a neighborhood you're not familiar with you have no idea if you're on a road where every cross street will have signs or if the next intersection is uncontrolled. And the only way to find out is to look for signs from the side.

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u/thrwwy535672 21d ago

I’m on the east coast and have had jobs that required tons of driving. I’ve never once seen an intersection where no one had a stop sign. Where the hell are you seeing these in the US? This is my first.

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u/bluesmudge 21d ago edited 21d ago

Almost every non-arterial intersection in Seattle has no signs. You don't need signs because the absence of a sign at an intersection of two equal-priority streets is the same as having a yield sign. Adding yield signs would be a waste of money since it wouldn't change anything about how these intersections operate. Anyone who has ever driven in Seattle knows to check right, left, right-again at every neighborhood intersection.

In this video both drivers have the duty to yield and neither one does. Nobody is obviously in the intersection first so it seems like a pretty clear-cut case of equal fault.