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Welcome back to London! Cycling from St Pancras (after touring C. Europe) to Camberwell, I was going south down Waterloo Road, approaching the lights with the Cut/Baylis Rd. Queue of traffic held on red. I pass to the right well over into the opposite lane. With no signal one of the cars in the right turn lane suddenly pulls out (likely to turn into that little street between the station and the pub) as I'm passing him. Evasive swerve, which would have worked if not for the pannier full of sleeping bag and tent. He;d started paying attention again and had slammed the anchors on, so it was pretty low speed and I stayed upright easily. Stopped and turned making the unavoidable WTF gestures.
The driver rolled the window down and was very apologetic. His passenger was all shouty and "you should have been on the left". The driver seemed to tell him to shut up. He acknowledged his error and was apologetic and I was desparate for the loo, so I just carried on. I probably should have reported him, but we all know nothing would have been done and hopefully my repeated "check your blind spot" will sink in.