Near Miss of the Day 245: Moped rider almost hits cyclist head-on

If you cycle regularly in urban areas, you can’t fail to have noticed the rise in the number of people on scooters – something driven mainly by the gig economy, especially food delivery businesses.

Many people riding them will have bought the scooter second-hand just for that purpose and, slapping an L-plate on the back, are pretty much good to go … driving standards can be sketchy, to say the least.

There’s no way of knowing whether the moped rider in Southampton shown in today’s video in our Near Miss of the Day series was delivering food, but what is clear is that the standard of driving is shocking as the cyclist, road.cc reader Matt, almost gets hit head-on.

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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