I’d like to dig up this thread if I may.
I was cycling up through tooting today on the CSH. Now, I consider myself a bit of a plonker for what happened but I really felt he was higher up the plonker ranking (if such a thing exists)
He went to turn left at the T, I was cycling perhaps 1-2 m behind him on the CSH, he did indicate but my thought was, he must have seen me, I’m sure this is my right of way and he must have looked, there’s this great blue strip of paint that screams, “check for cyclists!”. Unfortunately he didn’t and I was hit, not badly though. His reasoning was that he can’t have eyes in the back of his head, my answer was “well that’s why you have mirrors…”
Regardless of legalities, my feeling is that cars should not take priority in this instance.
My analogy would be that if you are in a car on a dual carriage way, and want to pull into the fast lane to over-take, you always wait for the car travelling faster than you to come past before pulling out (and you always check your mirrors) because it’s their right of way!
/end rant.