Now and again in our Near Miss of the Day series, it’s not the cyclist filming the footage who is subjected to a close pass or other piece of poor driving, but another rider up the road and that’s the case today as a motorist swerves at the last moment to avoid hitting a cyclist waiting to turn right.
It was filmed in Bournemouth by road.cc reader Dave, who told us: “I think they gave me space but failed to see the other cyclist.”
At the end of the video, Dave added another incident where a driver overtook him at a pinch point caused by a pedestrian island – something we see all too often in submissions to this feature.
Dave said: “The blue Peugeot crashed into the pedestrian island trying to overtake me. And yes, we did literally both reach a red light ten seconds later anyway. you can hear the wheel making a crunch noise.”
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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.
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