i'll make it short.

sitting at the stop sign at four lanes both ways intersection. look left. one car at 100 yds. look right, one car at 50 yds. no other cars in sight for quarter mile. i put my head down to catch my pedal and see (out of top of eyes) car from right pass in front, then car from left pass. assume intersection is clear...

wrong. there was a second car coming from left. it was visually blocked, when i first looked, by the first car from left. it was behind and in the center lane. it also happened to be the same color.

almost got me. lesson? no halfway measures at stop signs.