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Well spotted, but I think that that's not really the alignment a stray driver will take there. I think the issue here may be that there is this short contraflow facility for people leaving the supermarket car park (Coxwell Road). In order to accommodate this, they changed the entrance to the one-way system; the centre line would previously have run up to the point of the triangular island, so that there would have been only one or two one-way lane(s) into Westow Street. You can just about make out the former road markings in the StreetView picture from 2008:
It looks as if the scheme hadn't been done too long ago at that point.
It's possible that the island used to be wider to direct traffic past the corner building, i.e. there may have been only one wide lane at the corner, but it may have been narrowed in order to accommodate two lanes. That misalignment is now what will cause drivers who drive too fast and misjudge the corner to be at risk of crashing against the corner of the building. I think the tilted kerbstone is still sheltered by the island and unlikely to be hit by a driver. Just let's not give the local skaters any ideas. :)
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Oliver Schick
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Surprised one of these new kicker style curb stones hasn't sent someone through the window yet:
