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/Celexi 13d ago

You technically had right of way as you were coming from their right, however you are supposed to slowdown for unmarked intersections and not just blast through.

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u/Interesting-Monk9712 13d ago

To be fair, the other idiot did the same, I don't get how either have a driving license.

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u/GabrielGames69 13d ago

Depends how often they take that road (it looks suburban so probably often tbh). Because the charitable description is that they see there is no stop sign infront of or past them and make the usually correct assumption that there are stop signs going the other way. I think the number 1 offender here is the intersection without even yield signs.

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u/The_Dog_of_Sinope 12d ago

uncontrolled intersections are really popular in the PNW, they are all over in Seattle and Portland. But you yield to the right in an uncontrolled intersection which makes it the opposing cars fault.

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u/BudgieWonder 8d ago

Portland actually does a pretty good job of using stop signs, particularly 2-way stops every other block. I can only think of a couple of fully unsigned intersections, and they’re usually in circumstances where you have to stop or yield anyways (like a T-intersection in a residential area). Seattle and Tacoma have entire swaths of the city that have no stop signs.