Near Miss of the Day 47: Driver overtakes group of cyclists round blind bend

It's weird how some seem to wait behind for quite a while, then ovetake as soon as a blind bend appears. Like "I've been patient enough now so I'll just go".

Nothing remarkable about that whatsoever.  I ride around that neck of the woods and that's absolutely parr for the course.  Not least as the average age of drivers is close to 200 and they just have no grip on reality, in terms of speed, time and distance, and traffic levels, let along niceities like which is a sigle carriageway and which a tow way road.

There are now far too many group rides aound Surrey, far too many of which are a shambles and just really annoy all and sundry - you can hardly move on a Sunday in the surrey hills for groups of fat weekend warriors blocking the roads and shouting the odds 19/12.  As a result, the general level of animosity to cyclists has palpably gone though the roof, to the extent that it's a very rare day indeed that you can do a solo ride for a couple of hours without something unpleasant happening/being shouted at you.

The council have refused to tackle the issue, and thus it's only going to get worse.

I would get my MP Involved and let Surrey police explain to them why they weren't interested in pursuing of why they were making excuses.

Most Forces will now accept cloud type links to stored evidential footage. Well that is if they'll give out an email address to you.

Many employers block YouTube to stop you watching cat videos of girls makeup tutorials.

Its full of useful videos, but employers, including the police block it so they can’t see the bits they need. Of course they probably prohibit CD’s DVD’s and memory sticks too.

Avon & Somerset have a section of the webiste for submitting dashcam footage. Isn't this common across other forces/services/constabularies?

Worth saying that, through this facility, I have submitted Go Pro footage from a motorcycle that has been acted upon.

When I reported something similar recently, the person who contacted me from the police, said they had to view the video from their phones as they didnt have anyway of viewing the you tube clip on any police owned machines.

And thats via the new Met Police site.

Weren't we praising Surrey police yesterday for requesting videos showing poor driving and supporting cyclists on Twitter? Are we back to complaining about them again now?

Must be pretty frustrating being stuck behind a group of cyclists ... frustrating enough to put your life and everyones elses at risk. Police aren't interested unless there's been an accident as they have limited resources, so if they are dealing with this idiot driver then someone else commiting crime somewhere is getting away with it. Even so, I can't imagine it would take that much police time to put down their donuts and go pay the driver a visit and record/monitor for a repeat offense.

#standard

My collision was never investigated as I couldn't transfer my video to cd as my pc no longer had an optical driver

Looks like Paul should try tweeting Surrey Police instead, given the response re Near Miss 46.

> When I pointed out the YouTube link, they said they cannot view online video footage

Somehow I doubt they'd say that if the clip was of someone assaulting a police officer.