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While it doesn't necessarily excuse the impatient driving, isn't that kind of road feature still supposed to allow permitted wider vehicles to pass (bin lorries, maybe community accessible transport minibuses, etc...), hence wider passing on the right hand side, combined with the dropped central area of the island?
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Is that what they're actually for? I've seen something similar in the area as @croft says but marked 'FIRE ACCESS KEEP CLEAR' on the wider side, although not with the dropped pavement, so you could be right. He was still not a great driver as he came in too fast and mounted the kerb but I feel bad complaining now if he's just following procedure.
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Saw an Islington Council community accessible transport minibus this morning being driven by an absolute cretin. Instead of slowly inching through this road feature (which I assume is to both stop large vehicles accessing the road and maybe lessen speeding near the football pitch?) like all other vans etc. do he swung over into the wrong lane for a bit, then drove over the traffic island, mounted the kerb and then drove off, bouncing all his passengers around inside. I'm pretty sure he could have just fitted through with about seven seconds of patience. If it was too wide he just shouldn't be using that road and could have gone another way. Got his plate so I'm grassing him up to the council.