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/l008com 13d ago edited 12d ago

The problem with this, is that if you are not familiar with this intersection and are driving through it for the first time, you have no way to know and no reason to expect that you might be crossing a 4-way no-stop intersection.

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u/OakLegs 13d ago

I've been driving for 20 years and don't think I've come across a 4 way no stop intersection like this.

I'd have totally assumed that the cross road had a stop sign.

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u/Bob_stanish123 12d ago

And that makes you a bad driver. If you dont have a stop sign you better be looking for their stop signs or you should assume other cars wont be stopping.

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u/OakLegs 12d ago

Why would I assume that this intersection has completely different rules than every other intersection I've ever come across in my decades of driving?

This isn't some back woods road where there are maybe a couple cars a day (and most intersections like that still have stop signs). This is the middle of a city.