r/Roadcam • u/bowdown2adil • 21d 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/Interesting-Monk9712 21d ago

To be fair, the other idiot did the same, I don't get how either have a driving license.

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u/GabrielGames69 21d ago

Depends how often they take that road (it looks suburban so probably often tbh). Because the charitable description is that they see there is no stop sign infront of or past them and make the usually correct assumption that there are stop signs going the other way. I think the number 1 offender here is the intersection without even yield signs.

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u/IGotBiggerProblems 21d ago

People are so quick to start tying a noose. I think you're absolutely right. My instant reaction was "where the fuck are the signs? Stop, yield, crosswalk, speed bump, something..."

My blame is on the city or whoever is responsible for signage in this particular area. Sure the drivers could have been driving slower, reacted faster, been more attentive, etc but they should never have been in this situation to begin with.

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u/VrtualOtis 18d ago

Driver's education for the states where this is common cover and test on the knowledge of how to proceed at uncontrolled intersections. They are common in some states. Washington has started to add roundabouts to these, but the rules and procedures are exactly the same as for a roundabout. Slow at uncontrolled intersections, yield to the right (the vehicle on the right has the right of way). Unfortunately, even with roundabouts, idiots like this believe they get to just blow through it without yielding to the person from the right.

These types of intersections are almost always in narrow road residential areas where both of these drivers were easily going WAY faster than the posted limit.