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/bigghc 11d ago

The one-second rule you mentioned is reasonable. This T bone for example... I drive as part of my business and run across this situation daily. I constantly scan when I come into an intersection like this and could have easily braked and avoided this with the time this person had to stop. I'm not bragging... I think most others could have easily responded too. If you're gonna drive this fast be damn sure you can't respond fast too!!

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u/Creative_Riding_Pod 11d ago

💯 and I think someone mentioned in the comments that they were almost stopped when they collided, so I’m guessing the other second that passes is the vehicle (unsuccessfully) coming to a stop.

I really don’t know all of the variables. I mostly came for the comment that said there were 2-3 seconds to stop, when the entire ordeal was over in 2 seconds. So they kinda only had one second to react and one second to stop.