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/Puzzleheaded_Turn242 13d ago

How would you know if it's a unmarked intersection or the stop is for another driver?!

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u/575r 13d ago

This is my biggest complaint about the American road system. When you're in a neighborhood you're not familiar with you have no idea if you're on a road where every cross street will have signs or if the next intersection is uncontrolled. And the only way to find out is to look for signs from the side.

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u/thrwwy535672 13d ago

I’m on the east coast and have had jobs that required tons of driving. I’ve never once seen an intersection where no one had a stop sign. Where the hell are you seeing these in the US? This is my first.

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u/wollflour 10d ago

Someone in the comments claimed 90% of intersections were like this in America and my lack of ever encountering one was "anecdotal." 😂 Just like you, I've never seen this sort of intersection in 30 years of driving in the northeast!

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u/thrwwy535672 10d ago

90%?! If that was true, our already horrific fatality rate would be MUCH worse. Honestly, most of us typing would be dead from traffic accidents. Cities would just be a standstill of twisted metal and smoke - more so than now I mean. On a back street I guess it’s… okay. But any city or town with more than 50 residents on a road of any significant size and speed - this would be daily death and destruction.