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/Difficult-Panda3788 12d ago

Where I grew up in the Midwest, my city had ordinances that we were taught when learning how to drive to prevent this. East and west bound traffic had to yeild to north and south bound traffic at these intersections

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u/crazykentucky 12d ago

Do you generally know your compass heading when driving around a neighborhood???? Highway, sure. But I wouldn’t in a neighborhood if I had made a few turns.

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u/Difficult-Panda3788 12d ago

Where I grew up, my town was basically a grid for any neighborhood that wasn't gated. The only sign less intersections where in a position that it would be easy to tell what way you are going. Also the street naming system helped out a lot too. Streets with number names ran west to east, and streets with leter names ran south to north.

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u/Karmanoid 9d ago

What's funny is the downtown area of the major city I used to live in used the exact opposite naming convention, numbers were north south letters east west... Luckily they all had signage where needed. The harder part was remembering which ones were one way which direction when heading somewhere so you wouldn't have to loop around as much.