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Bristol not-so-near-miss 0-33 screenshotNot-so-Near Miss of the Day 582: Bristol driver pulls out on cyclist
Now and again on our Near Miss of the Day series, we feature a video where a driver's actions has resulted in their vehicle making contact with a cyclist – and that’s what we have today in this footage shot by road.cc reader Matt.
“I was cycling down Jacob's Wells Road in Bristol, hit a traffic queue and began filtering to the ASL,” he told us.
“As I filtered on the left side, a motorist pulled out in front of me without indicating, resulting in a very minor collision between myself and her front wing.
“At the time, I was a bit shocked and I berated the motorist for not looking – she said that she simply hadn't seen me.
“Having rewatched the footage I'm not sure who's at fault, though – the road layout, with its on-street parking, means that drivers might not realise cyclists are filtering down the left side. And, to be fair to the driver, she seemed shocked and remorseful.”
Matt added: “I haven't reported this incident to the police because I think the driver committed a genuine mistake, compounded by the road layout, and she seemed shocked and remorseful.”
> 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.
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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've had a fair few near misses with motorists coming out of that on-street parking and not looking...
Where it splits into two lanes, is an approach to a light controlled roundabout. The right lane is for right only, the left lane is for left and (more-or-less) straight on, if it helps.
The Audi on the streetview at https://goo.gl/maps/1HbWVNCY2knQyQ216 looks to be approximately where this incident took place - if you're going left or straight on then you have to shimmy between the queue going right and the parked cars. The marked area is a 'loading only' space.
A slow-moving driver in slow-moving traffic should anticipate a cyclist filtering on either side, so moving left should include effective observations to check it's safe to do so.
A cyclist filterin on either side of slow-moving vehicles should be looking ahead to check what decisions each driver they approach might be making. A split from one lanes to two (or vice versa) or the end of parked vehicles are likely points for cars to re-align. I would assume the driver may not have seen me (or be looking), so avoid passing the car at the critical point, or where they are setting off from stationary.
Indeed, better road craft from either would have avoided the situation.
All true, but I think submitter's mention of the road design being awful is also true. The driver is cutting across either the end of the parking or a bus stop (not entirely clear) at the point of collision. Parking that just suddenly becomes an extra lane like that is a terrible idea.
Similar happened to me along this stretch of road a few years ago. Differences were:
There are two lanes along most of it but the bus lane stops just past the crossing so cars going ahead or left can suddenly cut across.
The car hadn't looked like coming across as it was the second set of arrows before he did and I was actually level with his passnger side window.
There wasn't any contact partly through me manouvring towards the curb and being further forward.
Unlike the woman in the vid above, the car decided to punishment pass me at (excessive) speed on the road near the park as well as under-taking the car ahead of it.
I'm going to risk the rath here but does he need to indicate if he is going straight on?
Were you indicating to undertake?
Could argue that there was a change in lanes and was moving into another one.
Bu I think this is one of the rare occaisions where both cyclist and driver had responsibilities to avoid the collision and neither took them. Just glad it was at such low speeds that the cyclist was uninjured.
No argument required. It was a lane change.
Wrath of the pedants?
You didn't indicate that you were going to be a pedant
Yes, signalling to change lane is required - as is checking mirror.
Cyclist was already in the left hand lane as far as I could see?
That I can't accept, there was no second lane until after the parking bay. So the cyclist could not have been in it.
At the point of impact there are not two lanes, there is one lane and the loading bay.
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