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JWestland
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CSB to go here or the dangerous driver thread. Black audi/bmw type nearly crashing into a lorry earlier.
Going into a trading estate earlier, on the cargo bike and up ahead on the left turn I see a lorry pulling out and swinging to park itself right in front of me, so facing traffic (me).
I see this maybe 20-30 yards ahead of my anticipated death zone, when some audi/bmw/whatever revved and accelerated to try overtake me as I was making a ‘slow down’ gesture.
He gave me a filthy look out his passenger window as he tried to go past and cut me up and get in front of me, til he realised why I was doing it.
The massive lorry was parking itself on the wrong side of the road (directly in front of me) and hadn’t actually stopped yet, since it needed to clear the junction. So the hgv was rolling forward closing the gap the car was accelerating into, whilst cars were still oncoming on their side of the road.
I’ve slowed to a near trackstand waiting for a crunch as the car realised, swings out again into oncoming traffic, and narrowly gets through the gap between the rear of the hgv and the oncoming brake-slammed tradesman in his van.
Had both my hands in the air like “why?!” as I roll around the hgv and gesture thanks to the oncoming three vehicles for not piling up into a witness statement.