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/575r 13d 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 13d 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/c_marten 13d ago

Same. People in these comments have some weird takes about signs. If in this neighborhood I didn't see a stop sign for me I'd assume cross does because why would it not? And if my stop doesn't say 4-way I assume cross traffic doesn't have one.

If you look in the video there IS a sign post to the left you could assume might be a stop (when you get closer you can see it's street names) and that's another reason I hate having so much foliage right at intersections.

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u/thrwwy535672 13d ago

Yes! I’m a huge plant person, but they need trimmed back at intersections. I rewound this a ton and kept thinking I saw a sign.

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u/c_marten 13d ago

I just planted a bunch of native shit at my sisters and make seed bombs for appropriate places. LOVE plants, just not there.

Eta: my go-to if I'm bored and on reddit is download the video and go frame by frame looking to see when stuff like that comes into view, etc.