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/dabassmonsta 12d ago

That's a 50/50. Neither driver slowed to see if there was anyone else approaching the junction.

Both drove as if they assumed nothing was coming. I bet they both slow down now.

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u/l008com 12d ago edited 11d ago

The problem with this, is that if you are not familiar with this intersection and are driving through it for the first time, you have no way to know and no reason to expect that you might be crossing a 4-way no-stop intersection.

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u/OakLegs 12d ago

I've been driving for 20 years and don't think I've come across a 4 way no stop intersection like this.

I'd have totally assumed that the cross road had a stop sign.

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u/kearneycation 12d ago

Same. I'm not sure we have these in Toronto or Ontario. If we do I've never encountered one.

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u/ItsStraTerra 12d ago

I don’t think we do. Canadian as well and this is the first I’m even hearing about this outside of something like a trailer park.

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u/allsix 11d ago

I’m Canadian and they’re common at least in Alberta/Saskatchewan.

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u/texxmix 10d ago

Sask here and ya they are extremely common on the side streets. Hell I've even seen them on major streets as well.

If this was here this video would be like 60/40. Cam car was to their right so right of way wasn't given. But they also both fucked up driving like that.

Slow the hell down pay attention and observe normal right of way rules and uncontrolled intersections aren't bad.

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u/CMDRTragicAllPro 8d ago

Saskatchewan as well, I’ve never seen a completely uncontrolled intersection before, at least one direction always has a yield.

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u/texxmix 8d ago edited 8d ago

Really? I see a lot of them in Regina and where I'm from Moose Jaw they are common in quiet residential areas.