Cambridge may have by far the highest proportion of people cycling of any town or city in Britain, but as anyone who rides a bike there will tell you, that doesn't necessarily mean that motorists share the road safely - indeed, this video shows an overtake that was so close it ended up in the cyclist's handlebar mirror being broken. It happened on Coldhams Lane, and the beep of the horn that accompanies it shows it was a manoeuvre that was aimed at intimidating the rider.
It was filmed by road.cc reader Stephen on his commute during mid-November. He told us that on Saturday he heard from the Bedfordshire Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire Roads Policing Unit, who said they would not be pursuing it.
Stephen noted that this was despite the forces "recently running a close pass campaign," and that "interestingly they renamed the close pass exercise 'Safe pass'."
He continued: "The driver concerned clipped the handlebar mirror, which projects approx 1 inch from the bar end. The impact can be heard during the pass.
"I am wondering how close a pass should be to get any interest from this combined force. The preceding horn warning would indicate either bullying, or intent but that's just a personal point.
"Impact was sufficient to breaks the mirror, and put the wind up. But such is the life in a safe cycling city, where the police actively discourage such behaviour," he added.
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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.
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