I had a near miss with this in January on the 2 lane 55 mph road near my house. Some moron tried passing another car on the back side of a blind hill and when I crested the other side of it there he was, in my lane. No where to go because he was parallel to the car he was trying to pass.
Fortunately there was a wide shoulder there (but rock cliffs on both sides off the shoulder) yet it was covered with 2 feet of snow. I swerved into the shoulder, he missed my by a whisker, then as I tried to brake and ease my way back onto the road my car started to spin and I ended up sliding backwards down the road.
I ended up coming to a stop in the opposite shoulder facing the direction I had just come from, and somehow missed the moron, the guy he was trying to pass, the car behind the pass-ee, the rock cliffs, and the ditches.
If I hadn’t avoided him I would’ve been dead, we were both doing about 60 mph. I’m still rattled from it 3 months later.
Try a near miss like that on a motorcycle. Talk about bad choices. I had to choose between a head on with a Ford pickup or hit a curb at 55mph. Chose the curb. Played superman but didn’t land like him. Broken ribs on the left side and a broken wrist. Knocked me out. Best part was when I woke up, I found out that I had landed in a fire ant bed.
The real pisser is that the truck kept on with his pass and never stopped.
Someday, I hope to meet that person and personally thank him/her, with a baseball bat.
Similar situation here in Colorado - two lane road coming back from NM. Luckily the road had nice shoulders so when I saw him passing, I went to the shoulder !
Also on the UK versus continental Europe, when I was in New Zealand, I rented a car and had to keep reminding myself to stay on the left side. Basically look at the opposing lane through my window. Just when I was turning, I had to think my turns through.
> I had a near miss with this in January on the 2 lane 55 mph road near my house. Some moron tried passing another car on the back side of a blind hill and when I crested the other side of it there he was, in my lane.