This is a fascinating look at a perfect storm of a junction. For both vehicles to be unaware of each other just seems unfathomable, especially that this occurs

This is a fascinating look at a perfect storm of a junction. For both vehicles to be unaware of each other just seems unfathomable, especially that this occurs in a place where you’re effectively on an open plain with good visibility in all directions. I’ve stayed down the road from here (East Boldre) on a number of occasions so I’m familiar with the junction having both driven and cycled through it. I’ve even cycled through there with my kids in a bike trailer, which makes me feel a little sick. A number of comments are suggesting larger engineering endeavour to fix the issue so it’s probably worth pointing out a few things about the environment, as it’s a fairly unusual place. This is a national park that’s been fairly untouched for a long time. There are a lot of large animals wondering around but rather than being fenced in, they mostly roam freely. They often just have reflective collars to help stop collisions at night where they frequently congregate on the road. Furthermore, in the Uk in general, intervention seems to be strongly discouraged. Certainly compared to NZ, where I grew up, over here there seems to be more of an expectation that people should do the right thing without being nannied. I was told that when it comes to road intervention, it’s only post incident that changes will be made to prevent future situations from occurring. Another anecdote. Where I worked in south London there was a junction on a hill where traffic coming down the hill wasn’t allowed to turn across the traffic coming up. There was a sign, but it wasn’t especially obvious. On a weekly basis there was a surveillance van with a camera that sat the fining people (later, through the post) if they broke the no turning rule. We complained to the council a number of times about it because we often saw near misses. It wasn’t until the day a motorbike went through a car windshield that a change was implemented. And, even then, it was only a chance to the signage.