Near Miss of the Day 71: Bus driver ignores red light at crossing

Today's Near Miss of the Day comes from London-based helmet camera user Evo Lucas and features a bus driver ignoring a red light at a toucan crossing, leaning on his horn as he tries to force his way through the cyclists and pedestrians crossing on green.

It happened on Wednesday morning in Lewisham, south east London, and Evo told us: "This type of thing happens every day.

"If it's not a bus driver it's an HGV or car driver taking the piss with the lights.

"With the bus I actually put myself in his way to stop him blocking the whole crossing."

He added:  "At least it was a 'civil' discussion highlighting our uncivil road environment."

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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