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@mespilus
Wests hasn't happened for a couple of weeks,
but,
last Thursday did see me dropping in on @NorthLondonLight in South Acton.
I was cycling home, around 22.45, at the White Hart roundabout on the A312 and the Ruislip Road.
Pulling away from the last set of lights on the roundabout, a car went over a bit of debris that made a different sound to that expected from a bit of rogue sheet metal or broken light cluster.
Just exitting the roundabout I saw a high spec Corsa at a jaunty angle in the bus stop layby.
Cycling past it, I noted the drivers' side front wheel was deflated, but more deformed than from just a flat tyre. Sure enough there was a chunk, (secant?), of the alloy wheel missing.
Hard to see/ guess what the driver had hit to do that much damage.