Originally Posted by
CliffordK
It is possible you were just "invisible" on the road to him, and he wasn't paying attention.
It is my experience that people may choose to threaten or annoy another person (thinking of it as a joke), but it is rare that they'll actually deliberately do physical harm to another (at least in their point of view).
Of course, in some twisted sense, perhaps the driver didn't realize how dangerous causing a bike wreck could be.
A couple of months ago, I did have someone deliberately throw some trash out the window at/just in front of me. And a week or so ago, I had someone driving an old diesel apparently hammer the fuel on a small hill, apparently trying to smoke me out.
Anyway, I hope the police are able to locate the malicious driver in your case, and take him off the road.
My suspicion as well. I think Napoleon was right to say "Never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence."
All the same, it's hard to imagine anyone so clueless as to not realize when they've hit someone. And if they're driving such that they didn't realize it, they need to be permanently excised from the roll of people permitted to drive.
I'll say this too ... although I abhor such generalizations ... I get more crap and grief from males driving full sized pickups than I do from all other vehicle types put together. I have no idea why.
Anyway ... OP ... I hope you feel better soon. It sounds like it could have been much worse.