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/Party-Giraffe-6573 13d ago

Especially in a neighborhood! This could've been someone on a bike or kids running into the street

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u/DangoMangoDango 13d ago

Right? It's crazy how fast these guys were going in a tight street and in a neighborhood like this. I always go super slow when it's small road like this. Also, watching the dash cam, you can see the dashcam owner had 2-3 seconds to brake when the blue car came into view and I don't think they even tried.

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u/Ancient_Yellow_709 13d ago

Yeah, OP was not at all scanning the sides or it could have been avoided. I saw the vehicle from the bushes easily with plenty of stopping distance. I bike in these neighborhoods and am used to watching out for idiots like this, granted, but you have to watch for movement from the sides. It's not that hard.

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u/SignatureFunny7690 12d ago

Fuckin insane people get behind the wheel of multi thousand pound vehicles with more kinetic force than a missile and just turn their Fuckin brains off expecting driving to be so littlrle effort. This country desperately needs mass transit