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Witnessed an awful potential near miss with left-turning lorry/bike.
Had been to Condor and popped into newsagent next door and walked my bike down to corner of Grays Inn Road to get back on the road once lights changed.
Spot a lady on a hybrid approaching corner coming from Holborn who was checking a cement lorry ahead and to her right which had moved out to middle of road whilst slowing and clearly indicating left to turn into GIR.
She took this cue to accelerate to undertake and go straight on just as he started to turn at which point I started shouting "He's turning left!!" and waving at her to stop which made her slow down, thank fuck, and then stopped as she saw the turn properly.
It was scary to see something play out exactly the way it's speculated these incidents can happen.