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Near Miss of the Day 499: Driver cuts straight across cyclist at junction
Today's video in our Near Miss of the Day series shows the moment a driver who had pulled out of a side road across the path of a cyclist continued going straight ahead, even once she had seen the rider.
It was filmed in Pelton Road in East Grenwich by road.cc reader Ed, who said: "The car looks further away due to the wide angle, but the driver definitely saw me.
"I can't believe she not only didn't stop, but continued to drive across," he added.
> 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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This is why we need an improved road infrastructure for ALL roadusers, not just cars.
The van on the nearside is blocking the view in both directions. There's a junction very similar near to where I live. The double yellow lines don't quite run far enough from the junction, so there's usually a vehicle parked up obscuring the view.
Maybe, but even once the driver saw the cyclist they kept going.
Might as well, if the cyclist doesn't stop they are obviously going to come off worse, injuries and a dead bicycle.
The tank might get a dent and a few scratches.
If they have insurance (?), small excess and probably a protected no claims bonus.
Driver and passenger are definitely not going to hospital.
Bullying, plain and simple.
"(The van on the nearside is blocking the view in both directions. There's a junction very similar near to where I live. The double yellow lines don't quite run far enough from the junction, so there's usually a vehicle parked up obscuring the view)"
zero_trooper
You have very poor observation skills or taking after cops providing excuses for these types of notoriously entiled dangerous and careless drivers despite breaking of safety rules, as this evidence clearly proves.
Majority of decent drivers would have stopped to give way, as required.
Not an infrastructure issue. This was incompetence, negligence and entitlement
Yep, just selfish driving. I get incidents like this multiple times a week. Drivers who just barrel down roads and across roundabouts even when I have priority. Insulated in their metal box, they just don't care and know you'll either give way or be injured.
Just have to accept this will happen unfortunately, otherwise blood pressure would be off the charts.
Indeed, without police enforcement of road law you absolutely correct.
But this driver was hardly 'barrelling'. Only took into account what they could see from their obstructed view and when they did see something, ignored it!
Have to disagree with you there Cap'n.
Driver education & mindset is one strand (your incompetence, negligence and entitlement). Infrastructure is another.
Stand easy Trooper.
Need to the drive to the conditions. This individual carried on in spite of the rider being visible from the first second of the vid. Go if the way is clear - the way was not clear. Moving over the line is perfectly acceptable with care to gain a better view. Barging through in the face of oncoming traffic is not.
Negligence etc is not excused by poor infrastructure