The person below me!

[marshlander]

first, wanna make sure I understand what push bikes are. meaning non-motorized bicycle? pedal bicycles?

Yes, Frank, push bike = pedal bicycle.

Anyone who lives in a rural area should be thoroughly familiar with the likely hazards on the roads and should drive accordingly. If you are worried about meeting something or someone coming round a blind bend you are simply driving too fast. Here, in this part of rural Norfolk I am just as likely to round a bend to be confronted by equestrians, or even the man who drives a pony and trap, as by cyclists or pedestrians and it only makes sense to drive at a speed whereby I can stop or slow down down as necessary. In the more wooded parts of the county, for example Thetford Forest, there are further hazards of deer, muntjack, rabbits, foxes and so on. Muntjack and rabbits have notoriously poor road sense and if you've ever had a kamikaze deer bound into the road in front of your car you don't forget that in a hurry!

I took a "defensive driving" course a few years ago and the police instructor who was with me in the car said that it is better to stray on to the outside of a bend on a single track road, because you can see further ahead and have a few moments more in which to stop if necessary.