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Heading towards Chancery Lane this morning, just past LMNH and I'm behind a lady on a SS and we're both behind a skip lorry, as it gets closer to the junction and it's in the left lane, I move into primary directly behind it. It starts indicating left and is still moving closer to the junction and SS lady goes up the left of it, oblivious to the squishy death that awaits her.
I start shouting 'Stop', no response from her, she's up the left of it now and it's almost at the junction. I shout 'cyclist lady', 'lady on bike', bike lady' 'fucking stop now' and so forth as loud as I can and then it starts to turn left.
Only once it's swung in right across her path does she seem to realise that she's moments from death and comes to a dead stop, looking confused and still far up the left of it, with it blocking the entirety of the road ahead of her and next to her. It then has to straighten its wheels, go forward a bit, then make the left, as she sort of sideways drags her bike onto the pavement.
I say 'fucking hell, what were you playing at? That's how cyclists die' and she removes the fucking headphones from her ears and says 'what's the problem?'. I explained that it was indicating before she went up the left of it. Why not just sit behind it and let it turn? She says 'I did stop' then gives me a look like I just shat in her handbag and starts to RLJ. I say 'Un-fucking-believable, you almost died and now you're jumping the red?!' and she stopped and just sat there looking ahead 'til the lights go green.
Honestly thought I was about to watch her die, proper shit me up.