THE VIDEO SHELF · road junction safety
Why this British crossroads was so dangerous
Tom Scott explains why Ipley Cross in England's New Forest was one of Britain's most dangerous junctions. The angled crossroads lets a car's A-pillar hide approaching traffic and cyclists because there is no relative motion in the driver's view.
Why HN readers recommended it
Used as the go-to visual demonstration of A-pillar blind spots and badly designed junctions.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Tom Scott
- Topic
- road junction safety
- Format
- explainer
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 3
- HN mentions in dataset
- 10
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2020–2025
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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The Tom Scott video has a good animation on this: [VIDEO] Because of the layout of the junction the cars are actually approaching from behind the cyclists.
sitharus on Hacker News · 2020-04
In Collision Course: a type of road junction that is dangerous for cyclists (2018)The Wired reporting is based on Bez's article on Singletrack (as stated): [LINK] Tom Scott made a good complementary video about this: [VIDEO] It's already fixed just last month: [LINK] and [LINK]
zinekeller on Hacker News · 2022-02
In Tesla to recall vehicles that may disobey stop signsTom Scott has a good video for anyone looking for a visual of this phenomenon: [VIDEO] He shows off a rural (and thankfully now fixed) crossroads in the UK with seemingly great visibility and an unusually high rate of cyclist fatalities - the roads are …
DoughnutHole on Hacker News · 2022-08
In Effects of large vehicles on pedestrian and pedal-cyclist injury severity
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