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My old man used to drive HGVs, so I spent a lot of time in the cab as a nipper. There's a kind of front blind spot on HGVs, if you're not far enough forward for the driver to see you through the windscreen but not far enough back to be seen in the mirrors. Cyclists who pull up right on the kerbside, so the lorry pulls alongside, can be forgotten by the driver - especially at a really long set of lights, there's any number of distractions. Or, if they're not studying their mirrors the entire time they're sat at the light, cyclists can sneak up the inside unnoticed and then be sat in that spot unseen.
If you can't trackstand and you don't want to unclip, a lot of people stop by leaning on the railings, rather than plonking themselves in the middle of the lane under the driver's nose so they can't be missed. I see people doing that every day. Sooner or later one of them has to come a cropper.
I'm not saying it happened in this case, it's just what can happen.