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Near Miss of the Day 543: Punishment pass shot with 360-degree camera
Something a bit different in our Near Miss of the Day series today – a deliberate pass filmed from five different angles, shot with a 360-degree camera.
The footage was shot on the Bears Way Cycle Route in East Dunbartonshire by Dave Brennan, whom we’ve featured on road.cc before, and who co-founded Scottish cycle campaign group, Pedal on Parliament.
Referring to the incident, Dave said: “I didn't use the cycle lane (icy and people walking in it due to ice on the pavements) and this angers some drivers. This one in particular who, in my opinion, did a punishment pass.
“Using my new Insta 360 R Twin camera, I can view the incident from many different angles. Here I test out five. Let me know which one you think demonstrates the punishment pass the clearest.”
> 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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Sorry, how is "tooting at him" any better? Any time anyone "toots" at me from their car, usually causes me to cack myself and possibly swerve.
The driver should have waited until it was safe to pass him. End of.
What part of, “I didn't use the cycle lane (icy and people walking in it due to ice on the pavements)" did you not understand? I could have sworn that explained why he wasn't in the
gutterbike lane!What part of "Rider was too far out from the gutter." did you not get?
Did you watch the video?
Ah, the problem appears to be that this poster is a Kiwi, where the rules are that "All road users must keep as ‘near as practicable’ to the left side of the roadway."
This is not the case in the UK, and "too far out from the gutter" is not a thing here. Try checking out the local rules of the road before commenting: https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/cycletraining/article/ct20110110-cycle...
The cycle lane he mentioned is the snow covered area on the other side of the road I reckon.
I didn't see him much more than a metre or metre and a half from the marked parking bay.
A bit faded, but not marked in any of those dark colours you tend to find so objectionable. White, reflective paint I think.
If you watch the video you'll see there are parked cars in bays on certain sections of this road. The safest way to cycle on this road is to ride in a straight line in a strong position. It is most definitely not to weave left when there are no parked cars, and weave right when there are parked cars. I hold my line and remain entirely predictable. That driver made a choice...
Yeah, back in the gutter where he belongs...
Looks like staying out of the area demarked for parking.
To avoid moving into the parking bays, and then back out into the path of traffic for each parked car.
If there is a single car following it's easy to move in and out to let them past, but if there are many cars moving in to let one pass establishes the entire stream of traffic behind them, leaving the cyclist to either stop, or squeeze dangerously between parked cars and moving traffic.
Of course this wouldn't be a problem if the public highway had not been surrendered for the priviliged storage of private property.
Stabilised Rear View was the most terrifying for me.
This was clearly s close pass and probably punishment. What's interesting is that two of the camera angles don't highlight how close this is, quite the opposite.
Driver is guilty. The gimmick views are no help over 'standard headcam'. Did you send it to The Filth?
At 1:25, the rear wheel of the car is ridiculously close to the bike.
Terrible driving.
Can I go with none of them?
To anyone who has had a close pass and submitted footage, it is obviously a close pass.
The thing is each of them has distortion and I'm not sure what the police reviewer will make of that. I fear they may reject it.
Going on his previous experience, David's more likely to receive a caution for sweraring than the driver be dealt with for dangerous driving.
I suspect the same. I'm guessing that there is some clever post-processing going on to generate apparent normal footage from a 360 degree recording. Enough for a lazy arse copper or civilian assistant to dismiss it out of hand.
In particular I suspect the apparent inward movement of the cars rear quarter would be put down to a car stravelling in a straight line through a complex curved lens.
Every camera I've ever used has had some distortion. That depends on the field of view. On this camera I can reduce the field of view to reduce distortion, but I chose not to do that here, mainly because it makes the car look closer and I didn't want to be accused of trying to make it artificially close!
I get that. Unfortunately it is not road.cc readers you need to persuade !
I'm trying to work on my narrative as I'm only getting 50% success this year and I'm trying not to give police reviewers an excuse.
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