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Last week I was turning left from Oxford St onto Portman St behind a tour bus, doing 5-10mph. A pair of peds were crossing the road and decided to keep moving rather than wait <5 seconds for him to pass. They totally misjudged his turning circle though, so the husband has to yank the wife back by the neck before her feet go under the back wheels; she then falls on her arse and hurts herself.
Two ambulances, a police car and a police motorbike later... the driver's cacking himself & being interviewed by the old bill, the bus is full of passengers all inconvenienced, and numerous passers-by are treating this halfwit woman like they're all Florence Nightingale. So I was more than happy to give the tour bus driver my details in case he needed a witness. On some level it felt like justice for idiot pedestrians who can't bear to wait on the kerb.