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Is this the new normal?
Well, what do you think has changed?
Aggressive driving or riding has been a feature of traffic for as long as there have been vehicles, whether they were horse-drawn carriages, bicycles, or motorised vehicles. The apparent fact that motorised vehicles increase the visibility of traffic aggression was not lost on people when mass motorisation was still relatively new. This is from a Ladybird book in the 70s, and I'm sure there were other, similar publications before this one:
https://susannahstraughan.com/2015/07/14/u-is-for-utopian-ladybird-by-design/
Glad you're OK. Incidents like this can shake your faith, but they are not that frequent, fortunately.
Oliver Schick
Two separate head on encounters with entitled rat-run arseholes this evening. First was a big "not quite a LandCruiser" affair going silly fast up a residential road with nigh on nose to tail parking on either side, the driver of which appeared to think meant any remaining road was for his exclusive use. Quite a windy one, that. Second was less intense but again driver expected oncoming cyclist to become two-dimensional so as not to impede their progress. Is this the new normal? A bus also pulled out on me while I was overtaking but that was fun because I got to do a sweet little skid to tuck in behind him, so it wasn't all bad.