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Riding along peckham road along the right side of a queue of traffic waiting at the junction with southampton way. So I'm riding along, thankfully not very fast, and an idiot decides to pull out from the queue of cars to jump the line and turn right onto Southampton Way. He's about 12 cars back in the queue. Gave no signal, just went for it as I was level with him. I slam on the brakes, can't avoid him without going into oncoming traffic and I manage to jump off my bike and take a tumble, cutting up and bruising my knee, landing on my hands (one of which is only just recovered after fracturing it in May).
Of course when I had dusted myself down, I saw that he was just up the road still waiting to turn right so I approached his car and told him he caused me to crash. Him and his mate had nasty smirks on their faces. He told me he signalled and then just laughed and drove off.
I got his numberplate and I will be visiting peckham police station ASAP. Think it was outside a petrol station, so should be on CCTV.
So angry. Leaving the scene of an accident in which someone is hurt. Horrible man.