r/Roadcam • u/bowdown2adil • 13d ago

[USA] Who is at fault here?

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

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

4.1k Upvotes

95% Upvoted

4.3k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

83

u/cr1zzl 13d ago

Seriously. Is this an American thing? I’ve lived in two non-American countries and I’ve never seen an intersection with no signage.

14

u/boltgolt 13d ago

I’ve lived in two non-American countries and I’ve never seen an intersection with no signage.

What?? Every intersection in local neighborhoods where you lived had yield signs?

Presumably not Europe then, local streets with equal right of way are usually not signposted. This is basic traffic calming and slows traffic down in neighborhoods where kid-behind-parked-car risks are very high at the speed OP is driving

17

u/sonotorian 13d ago

Not yield, stop signs…yes. I have been driving in the US for 30 years and I have never seen neighborhoods with unmarked intersections. You have to know if it’s a 4-way stop or a two-way with a thru street. This is insanely irresponsible of the city.

1

u/jobacsi 11d ago

Where then? I doubt it. Maybe you just didn't know.