The daily Close Call

yep. there are two lanes, one for going ahead/turning left and one for turning right.

i thought that at first. but after looking straight at his wing mirror, impacting his van and scraping along the length of it, there's no way i can give him the benefit of the doubt

agreed. even if he didn't see you initially, that is not on - he should have at least stopped. i mean if you actually scraped him how could he not notice?