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@ExTra
Some drivers spacial awareness and what's around them is truly shocking. I was going up Upper Woburn Place with the intention of turning left onto Euston Road. I was on the left lane, it was about 15 meters or so before the red light. The driver from the middle lane slightly behind me decided to come into the left lane with no indication and started pushing into the lane as if I didn't exist. I very nearly got knock over. When we both stopped, I knocked on her window and asked rather politely if she saw me or not, and if was necessary to push me out of the way. She gave me that innocent + slightly shocked look and started saying god knows what without even bothered lowering the window. As I started chatting with a fellow cyclist who was behind me and saw what happened about drivers and how they like to be ahead of us, she continued to probably having a monologue of how she didn't do anything wrong. Surly she saw me as I was practically in a prime position and in front of her...