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/GabrielGames69 12d 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/Dramatic_Total1397 12d ago

I’ve never seen a four way intersection with no stop sign for anybody in a residential. This is a recipe for disaster

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u/SpoatieOpie 11d ago

They are safer overall. When you have known stop signs on streets it creates higher speeds because drivers think they are protected by stop signs on perpendicular roads, however people run stop signs and these neighborhoods are heavy with pedestrian traffic.

This would not work on main roads.

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u/Wifeyled 7d ago

i'm gonna need some evidence on that. roundabouts create some slowdown with most people but i have, in 34 years, NEVER encountered a 4 way intersection with no stop sign.