"Oh Shit" moments...

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........
If he came to you 'very contrite' why do you think it was deliberate? It sounds like ineptitude on his part rather than aggression to me, so hopefully a useful lesson learnt on his part, particularly with having to explain himself to the police.

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.
Don't worry, as long as your life insurance premiums are getting paid they won't mind ;-) (but seriously its not that dangerous statistically for the average rider....).