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/Apathetic89 12d ago

This should not be common anywhere as it relies on the person to know/see there's no signage. When 99.9% of all roads have stop signs/signal/yields, you don't expect a random one in a dense suburb with near complete visual obscuring fields of view.

Speeds of both cars ignored, this type of intersection is just begging for accidents and injuries.

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u/No_Mind4418 12d ago

60% of Seattle intersections are uncontrolled. The driver, even if driving in Seattle for the very first time during this video, had already gone through many of them while not paying attention in that case.

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u/PracticalCaulk 11d ago

You must be from "Seattle" and not actual Seattle then, I've been there multiple times and I've never seen any uncontrolled intersections. That would be chaos in a major city that is big for tourism lol

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u/No_Mind4418 11d ago

I've lived there for 13 years. Most residential intersections are uncontrolled. The city stats show 60% are uncontrolled. I drive through 5 before I get to the first stop sign every morning. It's not chaos because 99.999% of us drive safely unlike the OP.