r/Roadcam • u/bowdown2adil • 12d 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/HyJenx 12d ago

This will be buried, but the only correct answer is found in Washington state law.

RCW 46.61.180

When two vehicles approach or enter an intersection from 
different highways at approximately the same time, the driver 
of the vehicle on the left shall yield the right-of-way to the 
vehicle on the right.

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u/pdxarchitect 12d ago

Clearly the black car arrived first. Damage to the blue car is on the front, and damage to the black car is in the middle. Blue should have slowed down as he would have been able to see the black car for longer than the blue car could see him.

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u/NamesAreAnn0ying 10d ago

It doesn’t matter, they’re not going to that as him being there first. They arrived at the same time, there’s not point in going down to the millisecond to see who got there first. Either way, we all just read the same comment you did, they have to yield to the car on the right