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Near Miss of the Day 530: ‘Must Get In Front’ driver forced to bale out on manoeuvre
It’s another of those MGIF – ‘Must Get In Front’ – drivers that features in our Near Miss of the Day series today, although on this occasion the motorist had to sack off the manoeuvre after coming to the belated realisation that there just was not enough space to pass the cyclist.
The clip was filmed in Glasgow by road.cc reader Alun, who said: “On the way home from work I was approaching this roundabout where the lane splits into a right turn and ahead lane.
“I was in the ahead lane and deliberately once on the feature itself I take a wide line rather than hug the kerb to discourage motorists trying to squeeze me on the exit. This ploy usually works and forces a safe pass once on the main carriageway. Until yesterday that is.
“I’d shoulder-checked before entering and clocked the Citroën. On exiting I shoulder-checked again and the Citroën was right on my wheel and braking hard mainly as my line was blocking the exit.
“My first thought was, ‘Damn, that’s close!’. On reviewing the footage it was, ‘Damn that’s even closer than I thought!’.
“If you look carefully you can see the nose dip and the wheels actually briefly lock before the braking system takes over.
“Fortunately the roundabout wasn’t greasy or slushy like further up the road,” Alun added.
“Hopefully it will have put the frighteners up the driver and he will have learnt his lesson.”
> 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
Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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What on earth does this have to do with road.cc???
Cycling lobby innit
Road.cc happened to criticise Hambini once because he decided to do sexist drivel about Michelle including him asking people to post comments on the size of her vagina. When rightly criticised, decided he was being picked on because of the colour of his skin and doubled down by trying to dig more dirt on Michelle. A year later him and his imbecilic followers have put a massive amount of effort to still discredit her (she is too fat to have babies apparently) and decide Hambini is right all along. I'm assuming Derk first appeared around then as well to post defences for Hambini (it is alright for him to be offensive because he is asian, has Aspergers/ Autism and lots of other points like that.)
Ah thank you. The article, and the comments on Hambini's website were pretty toxic.
Of course with the spellings etc, I do wonder if Derk is Hambini. Not the first time he has taken criticism of him or his methods badly and gone on sites to "defend" himself. I was thinking about an Hambini BB at some point but have decided not to.
Aaaah I vaguely remember this cropping up. Clearly our Derk has a long memory
So if we call you a tw-hat tomorrow you won't see it.
Is hippocrates the Greek god of containers for hippos?
I bet there's long odds for that!
Today is my last day visiting this site written by hippocrates
Is this The Idiot or The Other Idiot back again? Fortunately, it doesn't matter because he's apparently departing forthwith in high dudgeon
Could be Another Idiot - there's always a third way.....
I thought he'd been incommunicado for a while, tbh...
I do love an illiterate troll
That looked like driver inattention, followed by panic when the driver spots the cyclist, and has to suddenly evade.
It looks like the driver assumed there would be the same "gap" at the exit as leading to the island without spotting the "Right Turn" only lead in. Stupid gamble especially as there was plenty of time earlier after the pinch point, and after the island to do the overtake manouvre safely for both parties.
I was thinking this was the last straw, but it seems there is some support for the mixing the spellings. Unfortunately, it's from the Grauniad!
https://www.dailywritingtips.com/bail-out-vs-bale-out/
It's not often you see videos from the future on here (26/02/2021) 😃
Well spotted! Need to fix that one 🤣
At least this driver had the sense to back off. Most just keep going for ever reducing gap
True.
Interesting date/time format !
What is the hurry? is a common refrain from me.
Yeah. Camera doesn't have a setting to record upside down in order to place the date/time format the right way up! The camera is upside down under the saddle and when I edit any clips I have to flip them and suffer the weird formatting.
The stunt gained him no time whatsoever. Hopefully he had to change his kaks after his emergency stop.
Just sheer incompetent driving. Did the driver think the cyclist would just disappear?
under the wheels......
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