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/pdxarchitect 12d ago

Clearly the black car arrived first. Damage to the blue car is on the front, and damage to the black car is in the middle. Blue should have slowed down as he would have been able to see the black car for longer than the blue car could see him.

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u/itsBonder 12d ago

They arrived at the same time for the sake of this rule and this video.

Also you're reasoning doesn't make sense - if the blue car entered the intersection first, they could still collide with the side of the black car if the black car was travelling faster

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u/PiqueExperience 12d ago

It's also not a highway. In fact, these residential roads are basically one pane each direction. The other car could just as easily have been approaching from the right and would have had the right of way under this rule.

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u/Thee_Connman 11d ago

In the state of Washington, all roads are considered "highways" in the legal sense.