Our latest Near Miss of the Day feature shows just some of the hazards that a London cycle commuter will encounter on a daily basis.
Those include pedestrians who are seemingly oblivious to traffic, motorcyclists in bike lanes or passing riders at speed, and buses pulling in too quickly after an overtake.
The video was shot in the space of just one week earlier this month by road.cc reader Andy Thornley.
He told us: “I was recently ill and off work for a number of weeks – off the bike for even longer.
“Getting back in the saddle, I'd forgotten how much London's roads remind me of the wild-west.
“People almost ubiquitously walking in the road, crossing without looking, buses skipping lights, riders swerving in to other riders and wide-spread rule-breaking from motorcyclists, bus drivers using the intimidation of their 8 tonne vehicle to bully other road users.
“London's roads have got the lot.”
Andy added: “This footage was recorded on my 4.5 mile commute to work between 2-5 October this year.”
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.
