Near Miss of the Day 533: Hay transporter lorry driver in very close pass

I appreciate that this is a few years old, but what was the actual resolution of the OP's complaint? He's been given an explanation why his complaint (re the hay wagon) was mishandled (basically, our admin procedure is crap), but no apology or some input how they are going to improve procedures? Did the constable pass on the envelope as promised and if so, why did the duty inspector not act on it?

That is horrendous. And actually makes me quite sad. If he had wobbled he might not be here now. He might have children. They might make a positive impact on the world, in the future. They would be torn apart, multiple lives changed forever. 
What do you all think about taking primary more or less the whole time. They've not then got room to threaten your life. Sure the Highway Code (expect anyone on HM's highways to know that?) says tuck in, but I'd argue that people will much less frequently drive through the back of you than try to squeeze through a nonexistent gap. Whadya'all reckon? 
Yours, depressed. 

I think some drivers of long vehicles forget that they are not in their compact hatchback.  Once out of their perifieral vision you have been overtaken, so they move back to their normal road position, forgetting there's another 14.7m (48ft) still to pass.  There's a local firm of cowboy coach drivers that have squeezed me into the kerb a few times.  On one occassion I noticed the driver looking over through the passenger door - I guess once I was out of view he felt he had overtaken.

Horrific, totally horrific.

That must have been terrifying.

Typical incompetence by the Police as well.

Appalling. Utterly appalling. That driver should not be allowed on the road. Period. 

Jesus wept. I flinched in my comfy desk-chair. I'd have properly crapped it on the bike. Utterly useless response from the police. 

Christ on a bike.  That is appalling driving.  Especially as it is so easy to relax after a lorry has gone past, and go under the trailer.   

And it is appalling policing too.  

I was terrified by a lorry pass a long time ago. He like this guy gave me sod all room and the slip steam was buffeting me. I am pretty sure this one is worse. I think you will remember this one for a long long time.

One of the main reasons why I have a helmet mirror and a Fly6!

Agreed - shocking behaviour from the driver and the Police. 

More proof that UK Police are F&*£ING useless.

That driver should have been prosecuted.

I'm raging watching this.

As usual the police don't want to know.

Have to say I used to submit footage that way too, but that was years ago and things have moved on a bit. The system piloted by north Wales police, operation Snap, has been adopted across Wales.

That said the overtake was truly apalling but I'm amazed there was actually a number plate visiblem not usually the case.

Why does this 14 day limit even exist? It doesn't apply to other crimes, does it?

Isn't it time it was abolished- or at least extended??

It is an accepted fact in Wales that the Police will never touch a farmer, its all a Freemason thing.

  This is not a conspiracy theory just a fact I know from living in Wales. 

This is why they turn a blind eye to all the hunting foxes with dogs that takes place even though its illegal.

Even my father in law is a freemason and he is just is a pest controller for many of the farms and they all scratch each others backs.

That's not police incompetence, that is misconduct. This should be escalated. That they wasted no time in persuing you for dangerous cycling but deliberately ignored this report clearly showing dangerous driving with possible intent to injure shows that the police in this area detest cyclists as much as the Clarksonites. If you had been killed, because of the previous warning you were given it would have probably not even been investigated for foul play by the driver and presumed you were dangerous cycling. 

So when the complaint is made by a driver against a cyclist, they leap into action and follow the rules and everything gets done pronto, but when a cyclist makes a complaint about a driver, nothing gets done and some extraordinarily pathetic excuses are made; that's a very special kind of incompetence.  Definitely time for an official complaint.

Even more frightening is that if the trailer had hit the cyclist, the driver wouldn't even have noticed and would probably never have been traced or charged.

I may be wrong but I think the police can still send a letter to the driver informing him/her that the standard of driving is not acceptable, even after 14 days. A poor substitute but at least the driver will know his driving was not good enough. I'm convinced that some drivers think this sort of driving is perfectly acceptable. Did the police do this?

Absolutely attrocious goes without saying and I'm glad you are OK. Thank you for trying to get the police to do something on behalf of us all.

That needs a formal complaint about the mismanagement of a case in which there was ample evidence.  Shameful.

Their Chief Constable says this,  "My desire is to make North Wales the safest place in the U.K. and this vision plays an integral part in achieving this aim."

You are, of course, a long way from fulfiling your desire, CC Foulkes

That is proper scary! Absolutely nowhere to go for the rider, and just centimetres from being knocked into either the trailer or the hedge, with either outcome meaning almost certain death or serious injury. Truly dangerous driving by the lorry driver.

This incident is also another example that shows how the system in place for dealing with such things is completely unfit for purpose.

Incompetency of the highest order from the police on this one, can only hope that if they had not let it expire before looking they would have done the right thing. Absolutely atrocious driving and appalling that it was let go with no consequence.

Presumably this is from the bad old days before they could accept emailed/uploaded evidence.

Lucky the cyclist didn't relax and move out after the first trailer. I've had a double DHL lorry pass fairly close once, nowhere near as close as this but it was still very uncomfortable waiting for it to finally pass.

I'd be complaining to the IOPC. There are numerous people within the police that are complicit in this driver getting off scot-free when he shouldn't ever be getting behind the wheel of a vehicle ever again. The cyclist was very close to becoming another statistic.

That's as bad as it gets - then comes the trailer.

Shocking that the police took no action. It was reading cases like this, where they'd not even looked at the footage, that prompted me to chase my submission up after 7 days. I think if I hadn't done that, there's a chance it could have been overlooked too.