Near Miss of the Day 345: Lorry driver in ultra-close pass (includes swearing)

Today's video in our Near Miss of the Day series shows a frighteningly close pass by a lorry driver on a cyclist - and given the queue of motor traffic, a wholly unnecessary one that put his life in danger.

It was filmed in November by road.cc reader Adrian on his usual commute from Ewell into central London. 

Adrian, who has submitted videos to us before, said: "The Met didn't like this one either and prosecuted.

"This is the full video that went to the Met, so nothing to see until 2:14.

"Bad language involved," he added, although in our view it's perfectly understandable in the circumstances.

"At that point I was banging on the passenger door of the lorry," Adrian said. "Not a good day out."

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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.