[Berlin_Freeper]

A merging lane that is head on?

[BenLurkin]

No. A stop sign were the driver is essentially perpendicular to the highway.

The alignments are really ugly, but pulling away from that stop shouldn't be any different than from any other stop controlled intersection.

Sometimes people die because they don't realize it is only a two way stop. But here it looks like she thought she could beat the truck and maybe overestimated the ability of her vehicle to accelerate with the load it was carrying.

[BenLurkin]

In this aerial you can see where their approach turns perpinduclar to the highway when it comes to the limit line.