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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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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?