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Near Miss of the Day 227: Audi driver ignores cyclist at roundabout (includes swearing)

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The latest video in our Near Miss of the Day feature is another of those ones in which a driver fails to see - or simply ignores - a cyclist on a roundabout.

This one happened yesterday morning on Chorley Road, Walton Le Dale, Preston to road.cc reader Phil, who described it as "Worrying". 

He told us: "it was really icy yesterday morning after a night of heavy rain, so I could have slid underneath the car. 

"Given that I ride at all times with front and rear lights on, the front being a 550 lumen light, and a Proviz 360 reflective jacket, it never fails to amaze me just how blinkered drivers are. Or ignorant.

"This is almost a daily occurrence for me, where I have to take evasive action to avoid being mown down.

"As usual, the ultra wide camera doesn’t show just how close the driver was to me."

> Near Miss of the Day turns 100 - Why do we do the feature and what have we learnt from it?

Over the years road.cc has reported on literally hundreds of close passes and near misses involving badly driven vehicles from every corner of the country – so many, in fact, that we’ve decided to turn the phenomenon into a regular feature on the site. One day hopefully we will run out of close passes and near misses to report on, but until that happy day arrives, Near Miss of the Day will keep rolling on.

If you’ve caught on camera a close encounter of the uncomfortable kind with another road user that you’d like to share with the wider cycling community please send it to us at info [at] road.cc or send us a message via the road.cc Facebook page.

If the video is on YouTube, please send us a link, if not we can add any footage you supply to our YouTube channel as an unlisted video (so it won't show up on searches).

Please also let us know whether you contacted the police and if so what their reaction was, as well as the reaction of the vehicle operator if it was a bus, lorry or van with company markings etc.

> What to do if you capture a near miss or close pass (or worse) on camera while cycling

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