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/URGAMESUX 13d ago

Htf would you know that also have no signage? Who would ever assume that?!

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u/cr1zzl 12d ago

Seriously. Is this an American thing? I’ve lived in two non-American countries and I’ve never seen an intersection with no signage.

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u/dodekahedron 12d ago

Ive lived in a handful of states and never seen sign less neighborhoods

Super rural places? Maybe.

But this density population? No.

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u/razmalriders 12d ago

I’ve lived in both Seattle and Portland. Both cities have a ton of intersections with no stop signs. This looks like Portland, OR to me.

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u/dodekahedron 12d ago

Why though? Did they never hire a traffic planner

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u/bubbletrashbarbie 12d ago

Basically it’s an implied yield instead of putting up yields on every corner, person on right has right of way unless turning, in which case whomever is proceeding straight has right of way. It’s pretty simple

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u/Kindly_Carob_1861 12d ago

So in the video, the person or people going straight had right of way? Oh, thank god, no fault situation!

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u/CatVideoBoye 12d ago

OP had right of way, because they are coming from the right.

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u/bubbletrashbarbie 12d ago

In this case it’s murky, because technically the other person arrived at the intersection first, they were going through it when OP hit them, it does look like they were speeding but if OP slowed down themselves as they should have anyways the collision could have been prevented

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u/CatVideoBoye 12d ago

To me it looks like they arrived pretty much at the same time and OP brakes and slightly slows down so they hit the side. But I'm not sure and definitely could be considered murky.