Ummm... Teribus... I did not actually yell "Oh no"... that was literary licence. Nor did I make ANY attempt to deny him a safe place to escape... and as far as I could tell, those oncoming cars were still perhaps 300 yards away... but the idiot could NOT have continued without hitting the lead car. My 3 car space was the ONLY thing that prevented some sort of sad incident... all this happened within about 10-15 seconds...5-6 seconds for him to be beside me, 4-5 seconds inside the safe zone, then a few more seconds as he sped on his merry way. and BTW..."Bill D should have immediately started to brake... " I am not stupid and I stay aware of my status on the road... there was another car directly behind me... far too close for any 'immediate braking'. If I had, *I* might have caused a collision. I 'may' have reduced my speed a wee bit by less pressure on the gas, but I simply did not process that bit of data in the few seconds I had....
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