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Near Miss of the Day 357: Cyclist left-hooks fellow rider

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Here’s a rarity for our Near Miss of the Day series – an incident in which the perpetrator is a cyclist, who left-hooks another rider at a junction.

It was filmed by road.cc reader Simon. Keep an eye on the right hand side of the frame and you’ll see the cyclist in yellow overtaking the rider in black before immediately turning left.

Simon told us: “Just to prove that it isn't just motor vehicles that have the monopoly on left hooks, here's someone on their morning cycle commute that was in such a hurry to get to work that he was happy to cut up this gentleman on his way somewhere.

I guess he wasn't going fast enough for the guy in yellow.

> 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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