A haunted Tesco. Inhabited by stooped ape-like creatures with shopping trolleys. Some say they can walk through deli counters like ghosts. Check-out operators have been driven mad.
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My slightly related pet peeve is the misplacement of “Yield” signs. Sometimes you will see intersections with “Stop” signs in the minor road and “Yield” signs on the major road. To whom, exactly is one yielding the right of way, the people with stop signs?
If there was power there for cameras, they could install traffic lights.
Traffic cameras come in “solar powered, battery buffered, connected via a GSM module” these days. As do traffic lights, but two cameras should be cheaper than four traffic lights. Both options are cheaper than altering the road itself. (Personally, I would prefer altering the road.)
There are a couple of solutions to make this intersection safe®, its just that the people who could make that happen have too many handy excuses for not doing it.
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Given the rules around camera installation here, other solutions are almost certainly quicker and maybe cheaper, and most cameras here are either speed or traffic light. Recording who did not stop and who rolled through a stop sign may need new camera/software design - I’m not familiar with any that do that, basically we because only only have about three STOP signs in the whole country.
Nobody has suggested one possible solution. A chicane 30 metres from the junction with approaching traffic forced to stop/move to the other side of the road to negotiate the chicane, which would slow them down enough to let them see the junction and signs, and even if they did not then do a full stop at the junction they’d be going at a much slower speed at the junction.
Like this, but with only the approaching side having one, and with priority to traffic that has just left the junction. One these before each side of the junction would work and is another more passive solution than lights or cameras.
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Cameras at intersections that are triggered when you run a red light are all over the place over here. Adapting them to trigger when you run a stop sign shouldn’t be difficult and probably is available already.
But since this solution might require ordering equipment from (gasp) the continent, obviously not feasible.
A chicane is mentioned in the video as well, I think. I don’t it would be of much use here, though - all the wannbe rally drivers would just have to swerve around it, increasing the number of accidents.
No, speaking as a civil engineer, the obvious solution is a tunnel (or a bridge), complete with connecting ramps, all in a cloverleaf configuration.
Planfreier Knoten FTW!
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Fuck, yeah! This one’ll do it! 
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That’s a Spaghetti-Knoten (and yes, that is the correct terminus technicus), but yes, that would do it…
Seriously, though - some sort of physical alteration of that intersection would work be best in the long run.
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