I don't know if this is a regular occurrence or not, but last night about 6.15pm as I was walking up towards the junction of Honor Oak Road and the South Circ at the Tesco garage two cars made a right turn onto the South Circ by going around the wrong side of the traffic island i.e. going on to the wrong side of the road. Traffic from Honor Oak Road was being held back from turning left because of queues on London Road going towards Forest Hill, but that was no excuse for such appalling driving.

Aside from being illegal this struck me as particularly dangerous at that busy crossing where pedestrians always need to take their chances between traffic light phases. It was raining heavily at the time and both cars were travelling at speed as they raced from several places back in the queue to make it round before the lights changed. An innocent pedestrian crossing, particularly one anxious to get out of the pouring rain, could easily have been hit having checked that no traffic was coming from the legitimate direction.

It is to catch behaviour like this that we need cameras, not where someone has nipped into a bus lane 20 yards early. Both drivers deserved at least 6 points on their licences if not a ban.