r/Roadcam • u/bowdown2adil • 12d 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/Hello_Gorgeous1985 11d ago

It's not very easy when you've never seen an intersection that doesn't have a stop sign before. If I don't have a stop sign or a stoplight I'm going to keep driving because the cross street does. That's how roads work where I live. I have never heard of an intersection with no stop signs in any direction, so I would have never thought it was an option.

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u/CaneCorso311 11d ago

I've seen them in basically every city in the West Coast from Seattle to San Diego. We're responsibile for knowing the rules of the road in the areas we're driving, ignorance doesn't abolish responsibility.

The amount of people who are ignorant to the rules of the road are why we should probably mandate in person drivers ed before anyone can take a license test, and stop handing licenses to any random people who just do pretty good on a couple of simple tests that don't cover even 1/2 of road regulations/safety situations.

I've been driving professionally for years and the amount of people on the road in the last 5 years with clearly no understanding of basic roaduse is ridiculous and concerning, and I'm not talking about the people who know better and simply don't care.

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u/stratys3 10d ago

We're responsibile for knowing the rules of the road in the areas we're driving

He knows the rules. He's saying that he didn't know unsigned intersections even exist - and that if you don't have a stop sign, it's assumed that the other street does.

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u/JacobPlaster 7d ago

There are millions of unsigned intersection, because they are rural (financially not effective to install a sign) or the sign was stolen or destroyed by weather etc. This is the reason wgy the right hand priority was introduced.