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Near Miss of the Day 536: Motorist in pointless race to overtake cyclist before red traffic light
Today in our Near Miss of the Day feature, we have an outstanding example of an MGIF (Must Get In Front) driver who makes a close pass on a cyclist ... only to have to be stop at the set of traffic lights just ahead.
The footage was filmed by road.cc reader Patrick, in the Knightswood area of Glasgow.
He told us: "I was just cycling along enjoying myself when out of nowhere the BMW appeared and decided I was invisible. Either that or I didn't deserve to be there."
> 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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I had that a while ago, but worse, he went into the left lane to turn left, when I was carrying on straight. The back of a stationary vehicle is like a magnet to a new member of the queue - got to get there first.
A bit of branch sweeping would be nice in the separate lane - that would worry me at night. I bet the vehicle lanes get swept more often than the cycle lanes.
All that perfectly good road space, blocked from use by parked cars.
What pisses me off the most about these moves is when they realise they cant complete the overtake so think the only fair thing to do is 'lean' the car into you and force you to move. It makes you fell like getting a rat bike with big spikes and just holding your line and speed!
Another one with an outstanding recall...
The control unit of the electronic power steering may have been incorrectly manufactured. This may cause a fire even when the vehicle is parked. Furthermore, steering assistance might fail while driving.
Scraping the barrel there.
lol, I guess it's avoided self-combustion so far!
I was more thinking that they would have only recently got the letter and then you factor in booking a slot, so driving it on the 7th is not a heinous crime !
I did get one for our car - something about the engine cutting out and you are left thinking "well, I've driven it a few miles like this !"
ah, yes the date is quite confusing - it's been on recall since 2016, but that date is the last time the DVLA checked if the particular car had been fixed yet.
I'm confused. Don't we want it to catch fire once the owners safely out of it?
Well, that would be preferable to a loss of steering assistance when driving!
But having had a car fire myself before (thankfully quickly extinguished) I would say better if the car can be repaired and the driver improved.
Maybe there should be a recall system for drivers!
Not sure what the bus was doing either, stopped in the cycle zone at the lights.
Anyone who buys one of those BMW SUV coupe things must be insane. I would cry whenever I had to look at it.
Re: Bus. Potentially got held up by right turning traffic and then had to stop there as the lights changed to red?
and tbf a bus that had stopped that far over the line braking if the lights had gone red, would have just carried on over ime.
and there are some shocking potholes on that road fwiw
I never understand those moves by cars though, and had a lorry do it to me once which wasnt much fun, the traffic is clearly stopped, not rolling forward or anything and the traffic light is clearly visibly red, why are they trying to overtake a cyclist at that point. makes no sense.
That struck me too. effectively reduces options for riders to either of 2 positions (secondary- or primary+) - with no easy opportunity to change from one to teh other
Because they are not capable of thinking further ahead than "what am I going to do next". They decide to overtake the cyclist without even looking ahead and registering that the traffic is not moving and the light is red. That is the next thing to think about once they have got past.
and that is, almost literally, beyond them.
Here's an example of this - the action starts at 40 seconds although the first part sets it up
https://twitter.com/i/status/1358521892915847171
Belter!