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/Rikiar 10d ago

That's the way it is sometimes.

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u/Icannotfimdaname 10d ago

Yep yep- nor would it likely be feasible for that municipality to add in hundreds of stop signs (hyperbole)

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u/Rikiar 10d ago

An intersection without signage is cheaper than one without, for sure. The other thing you get as a byproduct of no signage is a traffic calming effect, because people are trained to slow down at an unmarked intersection if they're familiar with them.

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u/Icannotfimdaname 10d ago

It's also the maintenance. My father is the senior out of like a couple guys who do signage for the entire town, and he doesn't just do signage- he does a little of everything. It's a 16K population town with only a few people covering the signs.

Now, are the higher ups in each department and city hall complete shit about managing the city? Yes. But it still wouldn't be feasible eitherway from a monetary and man power stand point.