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Crushing sideswipes :(

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I had a sobering reminder of how things could get seriously wrong a little while back.
I was returning from a pleasant afternoon's green laning. Cruising along a duel carriageway at around 70. I had just passed a truck. Up ahead I could see a small gaggle of cars behind a 4x4 towing a horsebox so I decided to stay in the outside lane. As I got closer I noticed a motorcycle was passing the horsebox just then a car pulled across me from the left-hand lane. Before I had a chance to ease off the throttle  the biker braked sharpish beside the horsebox so he could gesticulate at the driver of the 4x4 for some reason or other. Naturally the driver of the car in front reacted to this by slamming on her brakes I did likewise but was unable to slow as quickly as she was and I shunted the rear of her car.
We both pulled over and luckily apart from a very shaken driver the only damage done was a cracked numberplate on her car.
Meanwhile the stupid biker was long gone. Had the traffic been denser It could easily have turned into something nasty.
Later the lady wrote and invited me to pay for her new numberplate but I politely declined.

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