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Near Miss of the Day 75: Driver undertakes on roundabout
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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...