Near Miss of the Day 162: Overtaking driver cuts across cyclist

The latest video in our Near Miss of the Day series shows a piece of poor driving that resulted in the motorist involved a driver improvement course.

It was filmed on Streatham Hill in south London by road.cc reader CycleGaz, who told us: "Car ahead in lane two is indicating to turn right, the driver behind it doesn’t want to slow down and changes lanes into me.

"I was forced to change line to avoid being side swiped by this vehicle.

"We had been overtaking each other for the past mile, I have my rear light on, the driver should be aware of me, my position and my speed."

> Near Miss of the Day turns 100 - Why do we do the feature and what have we learnt from it?

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.

> What to do if you capture a near miss or close pass (or worse) on camera while cycling