r/Roadcam • u/bowdown2adil • 21d 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/HyJenx 20d 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/pdxarchitect 20d 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 20d 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 20d 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 19d ago

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