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@Ludd
I've just reported a psycho MTS drain truck (GN57 MYK) to the police and to his employer.
I'd already seen him bomb through a red light at the pelican crossing outside Kings College on the Strand.
Ten minutes later (and after echanging greetings with a noisy Vince) I was coming off the eastbound ramp off the Bricklayers Arms flyover (still in the narrow right hand lane of the New Kent Road) when he hurtled past me with seriously about 3 or 4 inches of space between us. In 20+ years of cycle commuting in London I've never had such scary pass.
And then as I was heading along New Kent Road, in the place by the ambo station where it's just gone down to one lane (after the right turn to Pomeroy) he appeared on my shoulder, pulling across in order to occupy the lane i was in. Thank god he had second thoughts and slammed his brakes on, allowing me and another cyclist to breath another day.