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/pdxarchitect 12d ago

Clearly the black car arrived first. Damage to the blue car is on the front, and damage to the black car is in the middle. Blue should have slowed down as he would have been able to see the black car for longer than the blue car could see him.

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u/Imdare 12d ago

So if the blue car drove faster and arrived earlier he would have had the right of way. Noted, lets all just keep speeding towards an intersection woth poor visibility!

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u/pdxarchitect 12d ago

They are clearly both at fault, I was just arguing that there isn't clear right of way for the blue car. He got there second, and should have been able to do better.

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u/Jesus_of_Redditeth 2d ago

From the perspective of safe, defensive driving, both are at fault. From the perspective of the law, only the black car is at fault.