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@The_Seldom_Killer
Not wishing any specific ill will on the driver, but are you considering pressing charges?
Whilst I appreciate that you are in a position to claim for damages through insurance, what happened was a directly due to negligent and technically illegal behaviour. There is a principle at stake here that I think is all too frequently overlooked when the default option is to go down the insurance route.
Presuming on it's absence from your description, I'm a little disappointed that the police failed to issue even an Fixed Penalty Notice to the driver. Should the driver be involved in a similar incident in the future then without the record on their licence it will be harder to establish a pattern of negligent behaviour.