Near Miss of the Day 300: Impatient overtake from ATS driver

‘Welcome to Swindon’ reads the sign as an ATS driver moves to overtake despite the presence of an oncoming vehicle.

The incident took place on Tadpole Lane in North Wiltshire in April.

Gill described it as a “dangerously close pass”.

She said the overtake was, “alarming for me but must also have been very alarming for the oncoming vehicle.”

She added: “The van is an ATS van and I have contacted the company, whose website boasts a ROSPA gold certificate, twice, but they have never responded. (I have received automatic confirmation of receipt.) 

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