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Came off just after the junction of Acre Lane / Bedford Road southbound. Young girl partially overtook me as I was navigating the very carefully deliniated hole in the ground there like a tram track, and she immediately turned left into Lyham Road without completing her overtake. Wasn't really anything I could except try to follow her round the corner, but the entrance to that road has a kind of stepped curb that I hit at a 45 degree angle - front wheel just followed it along straight across the mouth of the junction while I went down. I was not very pleased.
She continued on a little way up the road but did stop (her kids were in the back of the car waving their arms animatedly as I was falling so I figure they'd alerted her to what she'd just done), and firstly didn't see me, and then did see me but turned anyway because I'd stopped (I assume this is either because I'd slowed down when I noticed her trying to kill me or because I'd already fallen off my bike at this point). After a bit of back and forth she did apologise and I asked her to pls be moar careful.
Lots of people getting pulled out on and so forth atm. Drivers, y u no use eyes and brains?