Me: Southbound on a rural road, 80 km/h speed limit, approaching an intersection that had a stop sign for the other direction with none in my direction.
Something about the black Hyundai Santa Fe approaching from the east towards that stop sign tripped my spidey sense. The car stopped at the stop sign, but something I can't describe told me that the driver wasn't paying attention despite having stopped.
I was already on the front brake, gently, when the car started moving, even though I was very much within visual range approaching the intersection. All I had to do was brake harder, perhaps harder than a "normal" casual stop but not quite a panic stop. I came to a stop, horn blaring, as the car crossed the intersection in front of me. I saw the driver turn his head towards me as I came to a stop. I know he saw me at that point. He never stopped.
A couple of minutes earlier, that car would have passed through an intersection that the municipality had recently converted to a 4 way stop. Maybe he thought this one was also a 4 way stop. It isn't.
I know the driver of the car behind the Hyundai saw the whole thing ...
Something about the black Hyundai Santa Fe approaching from the east towards that stop sign tripped my spidey sense. The car stopped at the stop sign, but something I can't describe told me that the driver wasn't paying attention despite having stopped.
I was already on the front brake, gently, when the car started moving, even though I was very much within visual range approaching the intersection. All I had to do was brake harder, perhaps harder than a "normal" casual stop but not quite a panic stop. I came to a stop, horn blaring, as the car crossed the intersection in front of me. I saw the driver turn his head towards me as I came to a stop. I know he saw me at that point. He never stopped.
A couple of minutes earlier, that car would have passed through an intersection that the municipality had recently converted to a 4 way stop. Maybe he thought this one was also a 4 way stop. It isn't.
I know the driver of the car behind the Hyundai saw the whole thing ...