UCI Road World Championships team time trial mixed relay bronze medalist Lauren Doran has blamed driver "malice" for the accident that hospitalized her just days after the British team's podium performance.

In a post to Instagram, the 20-year-old British rider described the circumstances that led to her accident last week in her home county of Devon.

"After returning home to Devon, I was resuming training on the home road with my father on Tuesday," Dolan wrote.

"Toward the end of the ride, we encountered an annoyed driver behind us, riding single file, honking his horn. Because there was oncoming traffic on the other side of the road, the man could not pass us quickly enough.

"As if to express his frustration and anger at being kept waiting, he passed us with a few inches to spare. As soon as the driver came directly in front of us on a 45 km/h downhill, he stepped on the brakes because of the extra leg room. "Since then, I have learned that the police have a term for 'punitive braking,'" Dolan wrote. "Having nowhere to go, I attempted to cut between the traffic island and the car from the outside of the car, with the front wheels inches away from the car. Needless to say, the rear wheel clipped the island and I was thrown onto the bike. The car sped off."

According to Dolan, she had to undergo surgery on her left shoulder and suffered a broken collarbone and considerable soft tissue damage.

Dolan ran the second leg of the World Championship mixed relay with Anna Henderson and Jocelyn Lowdon, following the first leg run by the GB trio of Dan Bigham, Harry Tanfield, and John Archibald. She gave her team an early lead in the event, but was then edged out by the winning team from Germany and then the Netherlands for a somewhat surprising third place finish.

In an Instagram post about the crash, Dolan thanked the surgeons before returning to the topic of bad drivers.

"This was a malicious and horrific act that hurt a cyclist," she wrote. 'The driver has been found and denies he committed the act. Without camera footage or independent witnesses, it will be difficult to prosecute the individual. 'This kind of behavior is becoming all too familiar on our roads. This has become a culture that needs to be addressed, and the time for change is long overdue," concluded Dolan, promising to return to street training again soon for 2020.