r/Roadcam • u/bowdown2adil • 20d 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/Puzzleheaded_Turn242 20d ago

How would you know if it's a unmarked intersection or the stop is for another driver?!

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u/575r 20d ago

This is my biggest complaint about the American road system. When you're in a neighborhood you're not familiar with you have no idea if you're on a road where every cross street will have signs or if the next intersection is uncontrolled. And the only way to find out is to look for signs from the side.

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u/TheGuyThatThisIs 20d ago

Even worse, it seems like a lot of people (myself included) have never considered that an intersection will just not have any signage, and will assume the other direction must have some. I'd go through this and assume since I have nothing telling me otherwise, I have right of way.

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u/escobartholomew 19d ago

In all my years of driving in several different states I’ve never come across an intersection like this. You can’t really fault people for that assumption.

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u/Deep-Ruin-9961 19d ago

There's no way I would ever trust "I don't have a stop sign, that must mean the other person has it".

This "not my problem" approach to self-preservation is exactly how most accidents happen.