Near Miss of the Day 393: White van man in close pass (includes swearing)

Perhaps unsurprisingly we've seen a bit of a lull in submissions to our Near Miss of the Day feature over the past week or so - but here's one that landed in our inbox today that dates back to last October and where the cyclist has just heard back from the police.

It was sent to us by road.cc reader Andy, who told us: "White van man close passed me in Menston West Yorkshire, luckily the muddy site entrance gave me a little room to manoeuvre, apologies for the language.

"The driver was on his phone and failed to stopped at the red light at the crossing because from the look in his mirror he knew I was going to have words with him if he stopped.

"This near miss was in October last year I heard today from the Police, who said 'the driver pleaded guilty by post, the case was withdrawn as they were disqualified from driving a few days later' for other offences, so at least in theory he isn’t still driving for a living."

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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.

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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