There’s a road marking near my work that I think is dangerous, or rather, its presence mixed with British road users puts me in a safety-related quandary daily.

As you exit this roundabout onto a dual carriageway there’s an area in the left lane that is chevronned off - though it is surrounded by a dashed line. The interpretation is “please don’t drive on this bit of road, though it’s not actually illegal”.

It’s there because there’s a petrol station right by the roundabout, so you can give the people coming out of the petrol station a fighting chance to get out.

BUT YOU DON’T HAVE TO.

My usual routine is to use the right lane, then as soon as I’m past the chevrons, pull left. I’m usually doing the speed limit or more, and AFAIK it’s still illegal to overtake on the left, but I still check my left mirror before pulling in.

Today I checked, and saw one or two cars and a motorbike. As I started to pull in, the motorbike screamed, pulled up onto its rear wheel, and came past me on the inside doing something like 70mph. On its back wheel.

Fortunately, I resisted the urge to “teach him a lesson” and only hooted at the moron rather than finishing my manoevre. He looked at me all put out that I sounded my horn so dangerously in the middle of a stunt manoevre of his.

I was too stunned to even take his number plate.

I hope when he dies he does it with an inanimate object not with another vehicle as the other person in the crash may feel guilty, never knowing what a public service they have done putting this idiot off the road for good.