Help please.

[Saracenlad]

Absolutely had enough!! My wife and myself out for a ride this morning and met some terrible drivers.
On a B Road between North Leverton and Retford, decided to have a look at the garden centre there, riding single file with nothing behind, got to the crown of the road and just as we reached the entry to the garden centre with us both signalling right, the driver of a big grey BMW overtook us on the wrong side of the road doing at least 70mph. Nothing coming the other way thankfully but it almost wiped us out. Never experienced anything like it. Felt sick how close the car had come to us. Going so fast the driver just carried on. Sat here shaking typing this. Really think it's time to pack it in.
Drivers of large BMW, Mercedes, Audi drive on country lanes as if they are on M1 motorway. The garden centre was closed!!
Signalling to turn right in our village and as we turned right a prat in a sports car came round the same corner and thankfully again nothing coming other way, he very close passed us and roared off.
I am not anti car. Driven all my life from the age of 18. I am now absolutely certain that a lot of car drivers are anti cyclist. I met 3 this morning. Any ideas?

 

[Arjimlad]

Running a camera & reporting these idiots is a public service and helps me to process the events without undue anger/frustration.

 

[Big John]

Absolutely had enough!! My wife and myself out for a ride this morning and met some terrible drivers.
On a B Road between North Leverton and Retford, decided to have a look at the garden centre there, riding single file with nothing behind, got to the crown of the road and just as we reached the entry to the garden centre with us both signalling right, the driver of a big grey BMW overtook us on the wrong side of the road doing at least 70mph. Nothing coming the other way thankfully but it almost wiped us out. Never experienced anything like it. Felt sick how close the car had come to us. Going so fast the driver just carried on. Sat here shaking typing this. Really think it's time to pack it in.
Drivers of large BMW, Mercedes, Audi drive on country lanes as if they are on M1 motorway. The garden centre was closed!!
Signalling to turn right in our village and as we turned right a prat in a sports car came round the same corner and thankfully again nothing coming other way, he very close passed us and roared off.
I am not anti car. Driven all my life from the age of 18. I am now absolutely certain that a lot of car drivers are anti cyclist. I met 3 this morning. Any ideas?

I feel the same but I've got too much invested in cycling to pack in. Too many bikes, too much bike paraphernalia. I may go over to the dark side and take up mountain biking or doing bike trails but deffo the roads aren't safe now.

 

[oxoman]

Unfortunately you get idiots like this. I seem to get them every few months or so and normally a few occurrences close together.

 

[presta]

I think everyone acquires a collection of near misses like this eventually, fortunately most of them are misses not hits.