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@Tea_Bee
Oooo, that's really hard to call Hippy. Did she undertake? Was the truck too close because it had traffic on the outside and the driver, who has only one set of eyes, was busy avoiding them and cut her a tiny bit closer than they should? There is that issue of LWB vehicles having to go wide and cut in, just because of how their turning circle works. Did she "fill that gap" as the road safety videos used to warn us about? Why wasn't she in the middle of the lane?
I'd like to keep lorries and cyclists apart. At the very least during rush hour.
But that day isn't today. And until it is, we have to ride really carefully, because it's us who get hurt, not the lorry driver. I want the law changed. But I also want the hundreds of cyclists I see with their left foot on the kerb at crossroads to be four feet further to the right and cyclists ignoring what the Highway Code used to say and following the same line as cars through roundabouts.