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At the junction of Great Suffolk Street and and Southwark Street, heading directly across the junction towards Sumner Street, most traffic on Sumner Street is turning right to get to Blackfriars Bridge. They all like to begin to turn before traffic going straight has cleared the junction so I've had a few dodgy moments with people turning right while they're practically on top of me. Seriously, guise, would it kill you to obey the rules of priority for 30 seconds?
Anyway, today I was waiting at this junction for the lights and there was a line of traffic on the other side indicating right. A silver transit van pulls up alongside them on the other side of the road, not indicating. It looks like he's parking there? Or maybe he's using it as a two-lane one-way road? When the lights changed he didn't move with the other traffic, so meh. I figure I'll move out into the middle of the junction and wait in the nearside to nearside position for the turners to do their thang and then go around him.
He waits until I get into the middle of the junction before driving forward and turning right in front of me without indicating, so I'm basically sandwiched between two right-turning transit vans, with the one who was waiting in the correct place to begin with now actively trying to drive over me because he's become confused and is in thrall to whatever supernatural forces inexorably draw drivers to the right at that junction. Then all the vehicles behind him tried to do the same thing. Wtf. Not really sure how I got out of there but I do remember swerving about like an RC racer trying to avoid at least 5 vehicles bent on annihilating me. What the fuck is wrong with people at that junction?! Has it been built on the site of an ancient pagan burial ground or something?
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