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Cycling through a little village yesterday with my girlfriend, and there is a car up ahead with a line of parked cars on the other side of the road. The car in our lane has stopped to let a car pass, so we stop about ten feet behind it. Suddenly the car starts reversing rather quickly - my girlfriend is on a loop-framed bike so she jumps off and pulls her bike out of the way, but her front wheel gets clipped. I look behind me and see the driver behind me hurriedly reversing to give me some room - at this point my girlfriend is slapping the rear passenger window. I half fall off my bike and hit the rear window as hard as I can and the car stops moments before knocking me down.
I check my girlfriend is okay and notice that the driver of the passing car is staring at me - I presume he wants to check if I'm okay so I wander over to him. Instead he winds down his window and belts 'YOU HIT HER ON PURPOSE!' - I explained that I was about to get run over, and he replied 'You didn't need to scare her', to which I replied 'Who do you think was more scared?'. He called me a wanker and drove off. The driver of the car behind me leant out the window and asked if I was okay. The only injuries are my bruised knuckles, but it's astonishing how stupid people are - the guy clearly has his own brand of aggressively righteous bullshit and must've somehow equated 'person tries to stop themselves being injured' with 'young male punches defenceless woman'.