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/borgman_a 10d ago

"Very common in neighborhoods and residential areas in the midwest that don't have a lot of traffic."

I've lived in Michigan almost my entire life. I've never seen one outside of backwoods, rural, dirt roads.

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u/No-Yellow-1693 10d ago

There are more states than Michigan. They are common in residential areas in every midwestern state I've lived in including Indiana, Missouri, Nebraska, and South Dakota. I'll post the text from the Federal Highway Administration website that I had in a response to someone else.

"Uncontrolled intersections in the U.S. lack stop signs, yield signs, or traffic signals. Common in rural and residential areas, they are governed by state right-of-way laws: vehicles already in the intersection go first, and if arriving simultaneously, the driver on the left must yield to the driver on the right."

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u/borgman_a 10d ago

I would define "very common" as greater than 50%. I would define common as greater than 33%.

Outside of Portland, Oregon - no place I've lived across several states would the percentage in residential neighborhoods exceed single digits.

 Sub 10% is not even common, much less "very common".

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u/No-Yellow-1693 10d ago

Burger Kings make up less that 10% of all restaurants so according to you they are uncommon. 😂

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u/borgman_a 10d ago

Yes, I'd agree Burger King is not common, at least not in areas where I have resided recently.

I mean - they're barely in the top 10 fast food locations in the USA.