Near Miss of the Day 279: The ultimate MGIF ('Must Get In Front') driver?

Even if you don't know the acronym MGIF, you'll almost certainly have come across motorists deserving of it - the rivers who simply Must Get In Fornt of cyclists, no matter how pointless (or even dangerous) it is.

> What to do if you capture a near miss or close pass (or worse) on camera while cycling

> What to do next if you’ve been involved in a road traffic collision

Today's video in our Near Miss of the Day series, even by the standards of your typical MGIF driver, is something else.

The motorist overtakes a group of riders - including road.cc reader James, who shot the footage in Mortimer, Berkshire, yesterday - before promptly braking to a halt to turn right into a driveway, causing the riders behund to stop too.

It just makes no sense whatsoever. A handful of seconds saved - and on a narrow road with cars coming in the opposite direction, one that could have put lives at risk.

Fast forward to 2 minutes into the video to see the overtake and what followed.

> 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.