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Near Miss of the Day 75: Driver undertakes on roundabout

Our regular feature highlighting close passes caught on camera from around the country – today it’s Surrey

A few of the videos in our Near Miss of the Day series have featured drivers pulling out in front of cyclists at roundabouts, and here's another, this time one that happened during the hours of darkness.

It was sent in by road.cc reader Rupert who told us that "the driver was totally oblivious and unapologetic."

He confirmed that he had submitted the footage, which was shot at Shepperton War Memorial in Surrey just outside south west London, to police.

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.

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Hirsute | 7 years ago
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That roundabout used to be a death trap, as although it had a lane for cyclists, this was segregated with what appeared to be a white line but in fact was a small white wall about half kerb height. Hit that in the dark or gloom and you would be hitting the deck sharpish.

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john1967 | 7 years ago
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Another reason to get the brighest mother feckin light you can  lay your hands on and if anyone thinks its too bright they can respectfully swivel.

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Hirsute replied to john1967 | 7 years ago
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john1967 wrote:

Another reason to get the brighest mother feckin light you can  lay your hands on and if anyone thinks its too bright they can respectfully swivel.

You can see his light bouncing back off the road sign. 

I'm not sure the strength of the light makes a difference after a certain output, although I do point my head bike light at the driver coming from the side.

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Bluebug | 7 years ago
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If this occurred in Surrey, covered by Surrey Police, rather than Greater London, covered by the Met,  then that's what the SurreyRoadCops twitter account is for.   The Met will do SFA.

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brooksby | 7 years ago
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Sorry, but being undertaken on a larger (not mini) roundabout is pretty much just another day at the office: Follow the correct path across a roundabout and you'll get undertaken; follow the safer but wrong one and you'll get punishment passed...

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jimbo2112 replied to brooksby | 7 years ago
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brooksby wrote:

Sorry, but being undertaken on a larger (not mini) roundabout is pretty much just another day at the office: Follow the correct path across a roundabout and you'll get undertaken; follow the safer but wrong one and you'll get punishment passed...

 

Neither of which are acceptable.

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brooksby replied to jimbo2112 | 7 years ago
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jimbo2112 wrote:

brooksby wrote:

Sorry, but being undertaken on a larger (not mini) roundabout is pretty much just another day at the office: Follow the correct path across a roundabout and you'll get undertaken; follow the safer but wrong one and you'll get punishment passed...

 

Neither of which are acceptable.

I totally agree: I never said it was acceptable, just that its what seems to happen...

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