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@peony
sorry to hear about your incident. I had similar today with a HGV (cripes) responding to some sirens...the sirens were there - i waited...and waited....he had nowhere to go, or so i thought as it was full lunchtime traffic in holborn, and then i did a stupid thing, (thinking, he's got nowhere to go) and tried to pull into the left when the siren car was behind me.....at which point he, without indicating, surprisingly pulled left onto a curb and pretty much avoided crumpling me by some sort of miracle.
I think I was (almost?) as much to blame as him, but then a passing ped went off the chart with rage at the man, saying CHECK YOUR F**King MIRRORS ARE YOU TRYING TO KILL THE GIRL etc etc.............thank GOD there was no railing or I would NOT be writing this message - as its only for the absence of the railing that I managed to jump onto the curb.
So - even when you THINK a beastly truck has nowhere to go in full traffic DONT RISK IT! AAH! They might just pull left over a curb without checking their mirrors or indicating, and kill you.
Oh, and he apologised. Which was a first for me in a near -miss scenario.