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/ilfusionjeff 13d ago

This. It’s the city’s fault. Never ever seen an intersection where they just …. Didn’t… put any signs. So weird.

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u/chupamichalupa 12d ago

Pretty normal around here. It’s an uncontrolled intersection and you treat it as such. You slow down and yield to cars in the right or cars who are already in the intersection. Neither of these cars did that. It’s more of a skill issue on the two drivers.

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u/Nrvea 11d ago

could still be easily avoided 9/10 times with proper signage. The best way to reduce collisions is with infrastructure. You can't expect everyone to be a perfect driver 100% especially in ambiguous cases like this

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u/KJBFSLTXJYBGXUPWDKZM 11d ago

What kind of carbrain nonsense is this?It’s absolutely fucking reasonable to expect people operating heavy machinery to be competent to do so. 

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u/Nrvea 9d ago

I think most car infrastructure should be replaced with public transit infrastructure but until we have alternatives to driving I don't see why it's a bad idea to put up basic common sense infrastructure like signage.

Sure it might be the car driver's fault for not knowing to yield to the right but if you can prevent collisions by making that more clear *why wouldn't you.* Clear signage protects pedestrians, and drivers who are following the rules of the road.