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Near Miss of the Day 21: Overtaking bus driver causes cyclist to wobble
Perhaps the most unsettling thing for a cyclist when the driver of a large vehicle such as a lorry or bus leaves far too little room when overtaking is the turbulence caused by the vehicle.
The latest video in our Near Miss of the Day series, sent in by road.cc reader Mark Hayward, clearly shows how that can make a rider wobble - and if that happens at a point in the road where there is a pothole, say, or a drain cover, the potential consequences aren't hard to imagine.
The incident happened in Bolsover, Derbyshire as Mark was riding up a hill, and while he told us he had not contacted the police as yet, he did get in touch with the bus operator involved, Sheffield-based TM Travel.
They told him they had spoken to the driver involved, although they claim not to have received the actual footage he sent them.
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.
Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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Keep going at this until all forces are like WMP and road safety is treated as the national diesease it is (lack of safety).
I don't agree with him, but do agree with what HE said. See? I livley and productive debate.
Oh no, hang on. Just yet more kicking the now fettid and fly-blown corpse of this pointless narrative series.
None of this would have happend if he was/wasn't* wearing a helmet and jock-strap/£300 Rapha bib-short*.
*delete according to which swivel-eyed loon standpoint you take which will lead to whichever irrefutable badlying about of undeniable statistics it's appropriate to crow-bar into the "discussion" to suit your equally irrefutable and undeniably correct standpoint.
Hmmm - seeing that crap belching out of the tailpipe, is a call to VoSA not in order too?
Not what he said.
What he said.
You not bored of this yet editors? Only response so far is me, saying how bored we are with it all.
Yes, we know, there are some videos showing close passes/crap driving/etc. But as I've said before, what's the use? You going anywhere with this? You're currently standing in a room with a load of others who agree with you saying "Who agrees with me eh??!".
How bored WE are? That would be the royal we would it? And rather a large assumption.
Next time yet another cyclist is killed by an inattentive, distracted driver, perhaps you'll understand the point.
Wow... really? My point is that showing this is completely pointless. Better road.cc use their position in the media positively, to join or start a campaign, get in touch with Chris Boardman and British Cycling and highlight their work, rather than trawl footage for click bait. Next time a collision ends up with a cyclist being killed will you say "well, thank goodness road.cc showed some other dickhead driving like a twat, feel much better about it now."?
So it's just click bait, but you comment, twice?
Yeah, you see that's what click bait actually is...
No. Once I asked the editors for their opinion. The 2nd was a reply to you. As was this.
Yeah, they do this too, though. Doesn't have to be mutually exclusive.