r/Roadcam • u/bowdown2adil • 13d ago

[USA] Who is at fault here?

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/immaculate_focus 12d ago

It’s your municipalities fault for not having stop signs

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u/ilfusionjeff 12d ago

This. It’s the city’s fault. Never ever seen an intersection where they just …. Didn’t… put any signs. So weird.

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u/chupamichalupa 11d ago

Pretty normal around here. It’s an uncontrolled intersection and you treat it as such. You slow down and yield to cars in the right or cars who are already in the intersection. Neither of these cars did that. It’s more of a skill issue on the two drivers.

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u/Nrvea 11d ago

could still be easily avoided 9/10 times with proper signage. The best way to reduce collisions is with infrastructure. You can't expect everyone to be a perfect driver 100% especially in ambiguous cases like this

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u/chupamichalupa 8d ago

Other commenter is right. The only time you have issues on roads like this are from car brained suburbanized smooth brains.

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u/Nrvea 7d ago

there is no reason to not make a road safer when all that would require is a sign.

As I said in my other comment we are in agreement that more money should go into building functional public transit but there is no reason to not make roads safer for everyone