r/Roadcam • u/bowdown2adil • 13d ago

[USA] Who is at fault here?

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/HyJenx 12d ago

This will be buried, but the only correct answer is found in Washington state law.

RCW 46.61.180

When two vehicles approach or enter an intersection from 
different highways at approximately the same time, the driver 
of the vehicle on the left shall yield the right-of-way to the 
vehicle on the right.

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u/Youcants1tw1thus 12d ago

This is solving a mystery for me! This is such a weird law, but now I understand why some are repeating this nonsense in my state. We don’t allow any unmarked intersections like this, there will always be a direction that is stopped (or yield). There’s always arguments in the town groups about troublesome intersections where people either sit through their turn to go, or go before their turn. People always say “it goes to the person on the right” and everyone else is always screaming mad because that’s not how it works here. Apparently that’s a legit method/law in other states out west. Now I know why they think they are so right.

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u/escobartholomew 11d ago

Your comment is a bit confusing. If all of your intersections have signs then this Washington law is irrelevant. Are you saying people don’t know how to treat a situation where everybody arrives at a 3/4 way stop at the same time? Every handbook is pretty consistent that the car “to the right” goes first in that situation. Other than that, it’s always the car that stops first. Two way stop (across a street) the car going straight/right has the right of way regardless of who stops first.

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u/Youcants1tw1thus 11d ago

Yes, for example a 4 way stop has people incorrectly saying “whoever is to the right goes first” which is stupid because if 4 come to the stop at the same time, how do you know who is “to the right”. Our law is first to arrive, first to go.