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Yeah, got myself in that situation this morning. Seen it happy many a time before, but in this case the lorry (not an artic) was sitting there on the corner with a gap ahead of it, apparently waiting for the stream of cyclists moving up the inside of it to pass. Normally I'd wait, but today thought I'd sneak through. I guess that was the moment the driver decided to look up from his newspaper or phone or something and moved forward. I still had enough room to get through, but should've held back really. It's a big high kerb there as well.
Similar bit of road at the North end of Lambeth Bridge too onto the roundabout, with the addition of the pedestrian crossing there, so you can end up stuck next to something big that wants to turn left without a great deal of warning. I tend to always hang back there until it's clear but I see a lot of people go up the left of buses, lorries etc there.
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I worked in the transport industry for a few years and saw and heard of some nasty stuff.
Winds me up no end when I give one room and people push past me left right and centre to make the gap when you really don't need to. (Do you reallllllly need to get to work that bad?)
The fact I have been in a car vs truck accident and came of very worse for wear also means I am probably more cautious than most.
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I reckon I'm seeing a near miss of varying severity between a cyclist and an HGV almost every day on my commute from SE1 to SW10. So many pinch points on Chelsea Embankment. Nasty little one on south side of Lambeth Bridge too. Really innocuous piece of road where a lorry turning left can suddenly eat up all the space up to the kerb.
Its really starting to freak me out. I don't want to see somebody go under the wheels of a lorry.