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Commute home from Bracknell on Friday afternoon. Have left roundabout, probably 15yards up road just past the triangular island. Road is quite wide - about car and a half width - so I'm in secondary.
Hear car approaching - souped up exhaust.
Car passes - 20mph speed differential? (me 10mph him 30?) Wing mirror hits elbow, side of car brushes leg for the length behind the mirror. I am moved closer to kerb but don't fall off. Wing mirrors on Ford Focus must be on a pretty weak spring as I don't even get a bruise.
I stop and call 999 - he initialy continues, then slows, turns off and stops up the road, coming back on foot very contrite. I think the only way he could have managed what he did is deliberately and continue with call.
Police arrive, take the view he's a young driver from the outset. They interview him, he says he misjudged the roundabout, they say there is no way they can disprove this and that's that - they will 'send him away with a stiff talking to' - great. Someone admits to an officer of the law that he nearly killed someone by poor driving and that's that........
Zone 2 training goes out the window for return journey - 90minutes of pain cave anger management ensues. Later I wonder how fair it is on my family to continue with road cycling.