Near Miss of the Day 197 revisited – What happened next?

the problem is the video doesnt convey to a dispassionate observer,who may end up being a jury of 12 people if it went that far, the actual danger that kind of overtake poses to a cyclist, theres no context of the aero draft the truck causes or the actual closeness of the truck as theres no reference to the bike visually, it might even look to the observer(s) as if theres a nice cyclist friendly space being left, the truck doesnt swerve/veer, or even appear to be moving excessively quickly given youd expect it to easily outpace a cyclist.

to get to that mindset of thats actually a bad pass, and it is no question,you have to add your own experience of being in that situation and knowing what it feels like,how you get buffeted, knowing the technology actually optically distorts the field of the view such that actually objects are a lot closer in real life than shown in the camera

so I might not agree with the police decision, but I can understand how they reached their conclusion.

for all the self help cyclist videos there are out there it amazes me how few focus on how to to record near misses and whats the best setup for a camera given we know the limitations

Policy between forces is clearly not uniform.
I can only assume that there is a tick box that simply assesses the distance and has no box for size and type of vehicle.

Amazingly my footage before Christmas of a close pass resulted in Essex police sending out a nip.

A dangerous pass, simple as that.  Leicestershire Police need to give themselves a shake and get hold of the Tanker Driver.

Too close, too fast, too dangerous. Leicestershire Police need to have a rethink.

Keeping it simple - for the sake of Leicestershire Police.  Was that acceptable?  NO F***ING WAY!

A little more nuanced - and perhaps beyond the collective intelligence of Leicestershire Police?

WTAF? 44 tonnes?  Of fast-(and it was fast!)-moving metal, with all the vagaries of its liquid load?  Fast - and causing any amount of wind turbulence?

Any, and every, police officer involved in this decision should be put on a bike for a month, requred to cycle 150+ miles a week, entirely on precisely that sort of road. 

AND NO!  They don't get to wear police uniform, police badges, or fancy police reflectives with battenbergs/Stillitoe tartans/whatever.

Send the ignorant fuckers out, as naked and exposed as any ordinary cyclist.

Let me guess - the Police Federation's Health and Safety helpline will self-combust from over-use.

The tanker driver's a bastard. 

But I've no time for the self-serving, work-shirking, so-called-"public-service" bastards, who condone such criminally inept driving.

The inconsistant approach by the differing police forces is a probably a matter for the National Police Chiefs' Council to provide guidance upon.  Their Twitter handle is https://twitter.com/PoliceChiefs - perhaps we ought to highlight these cases to them and see what happens? 

Would the Police Chief say it was an acceptable pass if it was he or members of his family that were on the cycle?

Leicestershire Police were totally disinterested when some yob threw a beer can at my head two years ago.  It won’t take much to get me to turn vigilante I fear.

Totally unacceptable by the tanker driver, on another day he will kill someone driving like that.

I keep getting notifications of changes to the law, including a change to the Highway Code which says that drivers must give cyclists at least 1.5m clearance when overtaking, but since this is just the HC, I'm not sure that it's law.  If this is indeed true, then that pass would be illegal.

Whatever, it was clearly too close and the police are wrong.