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Near Miss of the Day 742: MGIF van driver left-hooks cyclist
Today's Near Miss of the Day features a 'must get in front' driver also ticking off a left-hook from their bad driving bingo card, overtaking this cyclist, only to turn left across their path having barely got past a fellow road user...
road.cc reader Tim recalls this one happened on Mother's Day, ignore the date and time on the footage, just after 9am in Deal, Kent.
> Near Miss of the Day 741: Good driver, bad driver...
"I was riding out from my girlfriend's to join the Sunday club ride. Nothing note-worthy before this," he said.
"I hadn't seen the van and had been overtaken safely by a few cars before taking the left turn. There was ample opportunity to pass safely before this so presumably from the engine sound he only just reached me as I was getting to his left turn.
"As they squeezed by I realised what they were going to do so luckily managed to slow down enough to avoid a crash. As I had no previous interaction with the van I cam only presume it was poor driving or a punishment pass for wearing Lycra."
> 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
Dan is the road.cc news editor and joined in 2020 having previously written about nearly every other sport under the sun for the Express, and the weird and wonderful world of non-league football for The Non-League Paper. Dan has been at road.cc for four years and mainly writes news and tech articles as well as the occasional feature. He has hopefully kept you entertained on the live blog too.
Never fast enough to take things on the bike too seriously, when he's not working you'll find him exploring the south of England by two wheels at a leisurely weekend pace, or enjoying his favourite Scottish roads when visiting family. Sometimes he'll even load up the bags and ride up the whole way, he's a bit strange like that.
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The second time is much worse.
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Interesting takes on the Facebook page. 'Should have slowed down on hearing the van' - because increasing the speed difference is sensible and you can make miraculous calculations on where it might be headed and the speed needed. Stuff about the parked cars and not looking. There was space to over taking if going straight on past the park cars and the camera is bar mounted so looking behind is not seen. 'There was loads of room' if that's loafs of roam, starting to turn before finishing the overtake then I am not sure what counts as a near miss?
I suggest turn off the date and time if (Like me) you cannot keep them correct. If ever you have something that ends up in court it is a potential get out for the other party.
As I've got Cycliq front and back, it's almost impossible to keep them on the same time. What I sometimes do when I remember is to turn them on and then put my watch into their field of view so that it's easy to figure out how much each one is off by.
Not at all.
The police forms ask you if the time is correct and then you get an option to state the time of the incident if not.
Not sure what you see as the get out anyhow.
I suspect it is "Your Honour, my client was driving that van but as you can see the offence happened in 2017 so it is passed the 14 day limit for alerting them of Intended Prosecution"
As you mentioned, the Police forms ask you to state the date and approximate time of the incident. My Go-Pro time always default to GMT so I usually state a line in the incident description box stating that if filmed in BST.
Although the police would have verified that before sending out a nip ?
Thanks for the reminder to change the time on my camera !
Argument for garmin varia !
Could have been much worse with that slightly slippy surface.
Not just the slippiness. looked rough in places.
Unfortunately, the varia, whilst warning the cyclist about an approaching car, would not have alerted them of the sudden left hook.
As a Kent cyclist, sadly that is the normal condition of roads in this county. If only we had better surfaces like those elsewhere.