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Near Miss of the Day 486: Lorry driver cuts across cyclist at roadworks in "terrifying" overtake
This is a terrifying addition to our Near Miss of the Day Series with a lorry driver overtaking a cyclist at the point where the road narrows from two lanes to one due to roadworks.
Gary, the road.cc reader who filmed the heart-stopping footage, told us: "This happened leaving Liverpool City centre back in May.
"Due to roadworks the road was down to a single lane. The HGV driver decided that the single coned off lane was wide enough for both me and and him. It wasn't.
"I uploaded the footage to Merseyside Police, who this week informed me that the company that owned the vehicle had been fined £1000 plus court costs.
"I've had several near misses, but this was far and away the most frightening."
> 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
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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So basically a driver, maybe taking some advice, realises he is bang to rights on a more serious charge so agrees to cut his losses by hiding behind his employers at a fixed cost of £1000 and nothing to show for it? If true then that's crap and needs fixing.
According to that "Limited companies cannot be given penalty points or driving disqualifications from driving." So failure to nominate a driver can basically be wrapped up in running costs. According thetruckexpert.co.uk, the running cost of an articulated lorry is somewhere between £100k-£135k p.a. - so yes, a £1000 fine = 1/2 week running cost, essentially irrelevant.
Perhaps insurers could be persuaded to look at the relationship between no. of "failure to nominate" offences a company racks up and their claims history - if it had a potential impact on insurance premium for the whole fleet then that might make them think twice about pulling this trick.
Or .. just amend "failure to nominate" fines for companies to be based on turnover rather than a fixed amount that has presumably been determined on the basis of what is reasonable to fine an individual.
If that were the case I would like to think the traffic commisioner would also be very interested in both their driving standards and their record keeping
what happens if a driver leaves the company though ? I assume some might literally only drive the one time on a job for them
As I understand it the company (their transport manager) are required as a condition of their operators licence to keep adequate records and if they cannot name the driver then that is a significant black mark against them. The traffic commsioners (VOSA ?) are not scared to suspend (or even remove) operators licences if required.
So once they realised their miscalculation and space was running out, the lorry driver preferred the option of running over the cyclist to flattening a few cones. With reflexes like that the driver needs to have to reapply for an HGV licence, after extensive re-education.
And then limited to only 'driving' a cargo bike.
Anyone else think "that wasn't so bad"... Then the second lorry came!!!
Yes, that was me. That's as bad as it gets before it becomes an RTI or worse.
I was already braced for the "Call that a near miss?" complaints
Good result from the police though.
Yep! Thought it was one of those 'the lens doesn't show how near it is ' passes.
Yep, same here - Driver was an absolute cluster-twat
I saw the first lorry go past and thought 'Meh'. Then the second one......................
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