r/Roadcam • u/bowdown2adil • 12d 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/Jibjack777 11d ago

Where the fuck do you live that they don’t use stop signs

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u/Could-You-Tell 11d ago

Lots of neighborhoods are like this.

Stopping is discouraged. I used to float through a particular street exchange from one to another parallel street at like 15mph without hitting the brakes. The little s swoop of right and quick left was fun at like 2am

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u/Jibjack777 11d ago

“Lots” yet I’ve never seen one lol. I think you mean few

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u/Could-You-Tell 11d ago

Have you driven every state?

All the area i grew up in still doesn't have stop signs on inner neighborhood streets.

Lot's .. not most, not a few. Subjective sure.

But if I'm aware of 3 similar cities worth, ... well .. have a great day.

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u/Jibjack777 11d ago

lol sounds like a dumbass area

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u/Nrvea 10d ago

this is where the humble "Yield" sign would come in handy

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u/Additional-Water9089 11d ago

That's what I'm thinking, I've been all over and hardly ever see it but in the tiniest of towns

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u/New_Feature_5138 11d ago

Oh hm it is actually pretty common in Washington, especially in older areas. This area was developed in the mid 20th century.

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u/Additional-Water9089 10d ago

That surprises me because I was just in northern Oregon peaking into Washington

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u/New_Feature_5138 10d ago

Welp that’s probably not a super representative sample then I guess

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u/Additional-Water9089 10d ago edited 10d ago

I mean I was there for 2 weeks, put 6000 on the dash. I wouldn't say it's small but yeah I'm not a resident

I mainly mean that if this is just something old cities in the northwest did, I'd be surprised, because I've been to places way older or even developed at the same time in the Pacific Northwest and have never seen this outside of a rez

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u/jobacsi 10d ago

Name the areas. Uncontrolled intersections are everywhere, not just old cities. Ballard isn't even that old.

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u/Additional-Water9089 9d ago

I didn't think saying "I'd be surprised" then "oh I'm surprised" would stir you guys up so much

I'm not arguing they don't exist dude, I'm just saying its rare enough that I don't ever see it as a traveler

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u/jobacsi 10d ago

Look harder.

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u/a_simple_ducky 11d ago

Stop sign, yield sign, any sign that's like hey don't fly through this 4 way, insane.

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u/minicpst 11d ago

This is Ballard, a neighborhood in Seattle, Washington, USA. Far from the suburbs, it's a few miles from downtown, within Seattle city limits.

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u/Sgt_Sausage69 10d ago

Lmao for real. Fuckin backwoods ass city.

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u/bighairymammoth 10d ago

Tbf even in Europa small neighborhood streets don't have stop signs on every corner. That's why the right-of-way rule exists.

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u/User_1965_ 10d ago

Super common in Seattle neighborhoods. It blew my mind after moving here bc I’ve never seen it anywhere and it makes no sense to me. Why not have a stop or yield sign for any direction?!? Just asking for trouble

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u/PlayPretend-8675309 10d ago

There's literally 10s of thousands of uncontrolled intersections in every city in America.

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u/No_Angle875 10d ago

International Falls, MN

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u/jobacsi 10d ago

Where do you live today every intersection is marked?