Undertake with a difference...

[Foss62]

I was the (fortunately unharmed) victim of some not so advanced driving today. The circumstances still astonish me.
On a morning run I encountered a mowing machine that made the narrow path and verge unpassable. In a 30 limit just entering a village I ran out towards the centre of the empty road as the mower was throwing up a lot of dust and stones. As I was passing the machine and just about to head back to the path, a car passed me at speed on the inside. The drivers door mirror missed me by about an inch, and presumably the other side missed the mower by about the same amount.
The road was clear when I left the path and any approaching vehicle would have seen the situation from a distance of at least a couple of hundred yards (the mower was producing a lot of dust).
I am trying hard to work out what was going through the driver’s head...

[Foss62]

You may be right. Before this stretch is a mile or so of road with no paths, and on that bit I would be running on the right. Probably the safest action in this case would have been to cross the centre line, but I imagine 99% of pedestrians (and cyclists) would have done what I did. I can’t think many drivers would want to pass that close to a grass cutter, so am wondering if somehow that driver saw nothing and only missed me and the machine by accident...