I had the worst near-miss incident yet yesterday.
On my ride home, I take small back roads.
At one point, at a 4-ways crossroads, I cross a busy main road.
I often have to wait a minute or 2 till the busy cross-traffic abates, before I can cross over and continue on the minor road.
I was stopped on the minor road, waiting to cross, in the middle of the only LH lane. There was no other traffic on the minor road.
The cross-traffic was flying past.
Then, one of the fast-moving cross-traffic cars from my left turns right towards me, up the minor road.
Only, it turns up the wrong side of the road.
It turns early, and heads directly towards me at speed, up the wrong side of the road.
It's not a case of 'cutting the corner', it's *way* more than that.
I may have deployed a large amount of Foul Language, and when they saw me, they swerved to avoid me by centimetres.
But due to their road position, they had to swerve to *my* left; into the verge.
Not onto their side of the road.
We passed to each other's left.
For my part, I had to move 2 feet to my right to avoid getting hit.
Not being Danny McCaskill, I could only do this with a swift sprint forward with the helm hard a'lee.
This took me forward out onto the busy road I was waiting to cross, and caused other traffic to swerve and beep.
FFS.