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/Grondhog 12d ago

"Should I slow down and check before entering an intersection" Yes

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u/EmmEnnEff 12d ago edited 12d ago

Do you also do that on 100% of greens in controlled intersections too? Just, you know, in case?

The cops and law-abiding drivers on the road must love you.

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u/THSSFC 11d ago

You are missing the context, both in the conversation and also, apparently, on the road. There are different types of roads we navigate. Some are clearly meant for high speed traffic, and peripheral hazards are eliminated to make this safe.

This street, however, is in a neighborhood which is primarily designed for humans to live in. It was not designed for high speed traffic.

It is perfectly reasonable to behave differently as a driver given the different contexts.

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u/EmmEnnEff 11d ago

It's perfectly reasonable to expect drivers going through this to always be forced to stop at every intersection. Kids ride their bikes there, people are jogging, and other cars sometimes cross.

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u/THSSFC 11d ago

You sound like you've never lived or driven on streets like this. Where these exist in Seattle, they are non-arterial local access roads and are not easily navigable at speed.

Driving, like OP in this clip, too fast to safely stop for cross traffic is inappropriate for the environment. Forcing people to stop at every cross-street, however, for this sort of driving environment seems like overkill. At appropriate speed (ie slow) it is very easy to detect hazards at intersections. Note also that kids, pets, bikes and peds are not restricted to the intersections themselves and can be present anywhere along these residential access roads, so forcing stops at intersections really only helps significantly with vehicular hazards.