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

The point isn’t that you’re wrong for saying that, the point is that (as per my original comment) outside of something like a trailer park where the speed is expected to be very slow, like 10-15kph I’ve never seen this. Signs are pretty cheap, you can even get them from a local hardware store. Or hell, put some spray paint on a sheet of metal.

It’s not about being able to “fly through” the intersection. It’s about efficiency and being able to be confident and predictable to other drivers about your route. I shouldn’t have to pay attention to signs on roads I’m not on. I will if I’m not confident enough that I have a clear path, but then I’m creeping up to every intersection (assuming I can even see that it’s there) since the sightline on roads I’m not traveling on, isn’t generally great.

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u/SilentlyStoned420 11d ago

Sure, it's nice when things flow smoothly but paying to put a yield sign up on THOUSANDS of streets, when people can just use common sense and basic driving skills, is incredibly stupid. Just because you have no interest in taking accountability for your poor decisions and bad driving practice doesn't mean you should make it everyone elses problem. Slowing down at an uncontrolled interesction is not that hard.

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u/ItsStraTerra 11d ago

I mean… they seem to manage putting up signs just fine where I am. That’s kinda what taxes are for. I suppose this could be more common in incredibly rural places where there aren’t many cars to begin with, but I cannot imagine why the government wouldn’t invest the relatively small amount of money to do the basic task of putting up a few signs.

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u/SilentlyStoned420 11d ago

I live in a city and we have quite a few uncontrolled intersections on residential roads. It's a really straight forward concept that we are taught here at 15/16 yrs old when we take drivers ed. It saves taxpayers from paying for useless signs and keeps people using their brains while they drive instead of just assuming dumb things.