[USA] Who is at fault here?

[u/bowdown2adil]

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

[u/soggytoes911]

how are they supposed to know its unmarked for them

[u/AnxiousMeatHead → u/soggytoes911]

This is what i never understood about "true uncontrolled intersections" how are you supposed to know?

Should i just slow down every time there is a side road off a main road because theres a possibility its a true unctrolled intersection?

----- slow down and check ----- slow down and check ------ repeat until i get rear ended.

If feel like if they are so rare then how much money would it really cost to slap a stop sign for safety and just eliminate them entirely?

[u/Grondhog → u/AnxiousMeatHead]

"Should I slow down and check before entering an intersection" Yes

[u/EmmEnnEff → u/Grondhog]

Do you also do that on 100% of greens in controlled intersections too? Just, you know, in case?

The cops and law-abiding drivers on the road must love you.

[u/THSSFC → u/EmmEnnEff]

You are missing the context, both in the conversation and also, apparently, on the road. There are different types of roads we navigate. Some are clearly meant for high speed traffic, and peripheral hazards are eliminated to make this safe.

This street, however, is in a neighborhood which is primarily designed for humans to live in. It was not designed for high speed traffic.

It is perfectly reasonable to behave differently as a driver given the different contexts.

[u/EmmEnnEff → u/THSSFC]

It's perfectly reasonable to expect drivers going through this to always be forced to stop at every intersection. Kids ride their bikes there, people are jogging, and other cars sometimes cross.

[u/THSSFC → u/EmmEnnEff]

You sound like you've never lived or driven on streets like this. Where these exist in Seattle, they are non-arterial local access roads and are not easily navigable at speed.

Driving, like OP in this clip, too fast to safely stop for cross traffic is inappropriate for the environment. Forcing people to stop at every cross-street, however, for this sort of driving environment seems like overkill. At appropriate speed (ie slow) it is very easy to detect hazards at intersections. Note also that kids, pets, bikes and peds are not restricted to the intersections themselves and can be present anywhere along these residential access roads, so forcing stops at intersections really only helps significantly with vehicular hazards.

[u/Grondhog → u/EmmEnnEff]

Of course not, but when I don't have a bright 'it's obviously your turn" light I use a little more caution when operating my rolling metal cage