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"The place you definitely don’t want to be is alongside, or slightly in front of, their front wheels at any time but especially at junctions. This is because lorry drivers who have killed cyclists by left-turns (making up more than a quarter of all cyclists killed in London in the last 6 years), even if they signal, often failed to look in their left-hand mirrors to check for cyclists."
This is what the problem is in a nutshell. And as I said before, we can't be sure that the Soton Row collision wasn't the result of the lorry over-taking and then turning left immediately. The lorry driver that killed Cynthia's daughter did exactly that. (Acquitted of careless driving).