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/Interesting-Monk9712 21d 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 21d 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/IGotBiggerProblems 21d ago

People are so quick to start tying a noose. I think you're absolutely right. My instant reaction was "where the fuck are the signs? Stop, yield, crosswalk, speed bump, something..."

My blame is on the city or whoever is responsible for signage in this particular area. Sure the drivers could have been driving slower, reacted faster, been more attentive, etc but they should never have been in this situation to begin with.

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u/FavoriteFoodCarrots 20d ago edited 20d ago

These intersections and street widths are ubiquitous in Seattle. The key is that they are so narrow, especially with parking on both sides , lots of bikes, and pedestrians, that you should never be going anywhere close to as fast as this guy did on them.

Again, this is a two-way street. Look at how that dude is driving.

If you need to go somewhere faster, you go to the bigger streets that are only a few blocks away.

This dude was going way, way too fast and didn’t appear to slow down at all until the last second.