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Glad you're OK. Having just looked at the location, the pinch point is about five metres from the junction, so to overtake and turn across you there must have been spectacularly bad driving. I assume you put the crash on the record with police despite the relatively fortunate outcome? All such records help with tracking where problems exist. (There is a huge degree of under-reporting of such minor crashes, but they are nonetheless significant; if they were all reported, we'd have a much clearer picture--and, needless to say, such crashes sometimes turn out to be more severe when the adrenaline has worn off and the instinct to say 'it's all fine' has dissipated.
Oliver Schick
Myself - left hooked on Coldharbour Lane eastbound by a driver turning on to Lilford Road. Not really sure where they went past me but usually ride quite central along the road so imagine it was after the pinch point and then turned straight across me. Came to a slow enough that I was able to just slide onto the boot luckily so no damage to me aside from a scratch on my leg.
To my luck there was a police van behind with about 7 officers in who stopped and got out to check everything was ok. The officers discussed it with the driver asking how she couldn't have seen me where she admitted she did and then they asked why she turned then to which she couldn't really answer and they mentioned several times the recent accidents that have had much worse results. Rode on my way after that as couldn't be fussed to go any further with it and was happy after the 5 minutes or so of conversation and checking myself and bike with police that everything was ok.