Near Miss of the Day 439: Overtaking driver bails out due to oncoming traffic

I wouldn't be surprised if that was not his intended place to park, but that he just pulled across onto the footway to further box in and antagonise the cyclist. 
It's very noticeable the number of motorists who are in such an apparent hurry that they need to perform an unsafe pass - either endangering a cyclist, or oncoming trafffic, or even themselves. Yet when you call out their unacceptable driving, they then have all the time in the world to stop and argue their unjustified case.  Like the cyclist here states:  why can't they wait literally a few seconds until the oncoming lane is clear. Or until we're past the pinchpoint, or until we're clear of the blind bend etc. And better still: it's not hard to time one's approach so as to arrive at the overtake when the road is more open, rather than to drive without thinking ahead and then figuring out what to do only once having already arrived at the situation.

Hmm....

I actually know who that is, one of my extended family relatives.

He's a genuine arsehole all the time, not just when behing the wheel of his van.

I'll be having words.

I get this sort of sh#t on virtually every ride; either through ignorance or imaptience. I've just 'normalised' to it so can't be bothered to download off the camera; would have to be a pretty nasty example for me to send it in to the police.

What appaling driving! I really do hope that the Police get involved. If this guy really doesn't understand what he did was wrong then he shouldn't be allowed to drive.

Actually pleasantly surprised he abandoned the first overtake, rather than ploughing on regardless like yesterday's horsebox numpty. But beggars belief that, knowing he's about to pull in, he then goes for the overtake again. The second one had to be punishment for making a fuss, no?  

The way the oncoming driver slowed right down made it clear he/she thought it was too close for sure. That is a truly rubbish example of driving. It was a completely pointless overtake that put the cyclist at risk not once, but twice. 

Totally unnecessary overtake when he was pulling in a hundred metres up the road.  If the police don't want to do him for his dangerous passing, they could prosecute him for driving on the footpath.

Misleading title. I was expecting a driver to literally jump out of his vehicle due to an imminent head on collision or something. Would be a bit like saying "One of NASA's astronauts pulls a moony" when Lance Armstrong landed on the moon back in 69.

Simply saying "One and a half metres" seems a very polite way of saying "WTF did you think you were doing there??!!??"