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You shouldn’t feel bad about that, Bothwell. As others have said, it’s up to those riding behind you to make sure that they are alert enough and have enough space to stop if you stop (regardless of your reason for stopping).
I rather shocked a colleague the other day when I reported an incident the other morning on Waterloo Bridge, where a rider in front of me slowed (a bus was threatening to pull out of the bus lane), I slowed, but the person behind me clipped my wheel. I was only aware of the buzzing of their tyre on my mudguard, but when I looked round a couple of seconds later there was a whole heap of cyclists on the tarmac – enough for it to be difficult to tell how many. I felt absolutely no remorse.