This is why you should actually stop at stop signs and red lights, which nobody does.

It happens all the time to runners, especially when people roll up and through stop signs. The speeds often line up well. I had always attributed it to being in the pillar blindspot (and when the speeds match as described in the article, you stay in that blindspot the whole time). After reading the article, it makes more sense.

I can't count the number of drivers who have rolled up to a stop sign with no intent of actually stopping, taken one final look out their window as they go through and had a huge jump of fright to see me staring back at them through the window angrily, having stopped just in time to avoid getting run over.