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Ye old white van man . 1-21 screenshotNear Miss of the Day 565: A very aggressive white van man
A very aggressive van driver is featured in our Near Miss of the Day series today, beeping his horn behind a cyclist riding through pinch points, before making a punishment pass on the rider, then brake-checking him.
Filmed in Chorley, Lancashire It was posted to YouTube by user jthefishy, whose videos have previously appeared in this series.
In the description to the video, he said: "On my first ride on my road bike in 5 weeks and I come to a pitch point in the road and I have someone just pomping on their horn behind me, I gesture to them to stop, but after the pinch point he did a very close pass then cut in on me before brake checking me."
> 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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No mention of this being reported or not to the police. If not already done, please do this. As already mentioned, there are a series of issues here that I would hope would lead to the driver being removed from the road to prevent this continuing to happen to other road users.
Hope obviously the operative word here, but if you don't report, then it definitely won't happen.
Should be given an immediate ban for that series of manouevres.
What a tw4t. overtaking on an unbroken line approaching the brow of a hill.
Needs reporting to the police.
I'd also say report it to his employers but it seems he's a one man band. Chris Davies builders. Looks like he's already getting 1 star reviews. Name address and phone number all available in one google search
The guys a complete and utter twunt.
He's already setting accounts to private. Bet that's taking him longer than the handful of seconds he spent leaning on the horn behind the cyclist.
I do hope the police so something about this, as it's a real clear case of intimidation.
Hopefully the loss of business will hurt his pocket a lot more than the likely penalty would have!
With a bit of luck his business will become a one man banned.
Like people don't have anything better to do but to spend there time 1 staring a company and going out of there way to mess with a business that has been going for 30+ years, how sad must you be to even think of doing that. You have no idea how many people work for this business, I imagine more than a handful. Just because a driver of a van makes a mistake which I'm not saying he was in the right at all, you then attack the company and share the owners details on this forum. What a shame to be part of the cyclist community.
Are you related to the company's owner ?
Do you even cycle ?
Because if you describe what the driver did as a mistake, then I very much doubt it.
Yes I do cycle, I've recently made an account after seeing this article. I'm saying the driver is in the wrong completely but some people on this forum are playing keyboard warrior and just trying to destroy a company for no reason. A previous comment I found was 'Let's find this van and destroy it' what a childish thing to say. Imagine if you owned a company that your employees depend on and your saying stuff like that its pathetic in my opinion
1000s of cyclists are killed or seriously injured by driving like that every single year.
I would never do business with a company that allows its vehicles to be driven in such a way. It is therefore perfectly legitimate to use public reviews of said company to highlight such behaviour.
If his company goes bust as a consequence of this then there will only be one person to blame.
At least you are now able to say the driver is in the wrong completely.
Not sure where you saw a comment about destroying it ( although it is possible the mods removed it ).
Companies suffer reputational damage when they or their employees act recklessly - why is that even considered as an issue for you?
I doubt few will take much notice or remember. I couldn't even name the small coffee chain that cyclists were supposed to boycott due to the behaviour of the owner.
There's a world of difference between 'making a mistake' and completely unforced, aggressive bullying.
Any company that cares about its employees and customers would immediately apologise for such unnecessarily aggressive action and either get rid of the driver (if they're unrepentant) or get them some help to deal with their anger issues and maybe get someone more stable to do the driving.
If I'm not mistaken that is Euxton just near to the railway station headed towards Wigan Road.
There is actually a cycle path (of sorts) on the left that starts just before the bridge over the railway track so I'm guessing that's why Mr Impatient is beeping.
It's happened to me a few times going the other way.
Mr Imptient is beeping because he is an entitled pr!ck. I don't think we can blame the infrastructure...
Without a doubt.
I'm not excusing his behaviour at all as he certainly is an entitled prick, it's just not immediately obvious (even if you know the road well) that there is a cycle lane there.
Yes.
All I can see is a shortish stretch of white line along the middle of the uneven pavement. I can't see any signs or marking to say what it is for - so I would assume it is just normal pavement. Where it re-joins the road is dodgy. I wouldn't use it.
I was thinking I could see a piece of short infr on the footpth there, then entitled arseholes like this one not only think that it is compulsory for us to use it but it is also there job to enforce there irrelevant opinions on us, and if we don't move then they seem to believe that they should then move on from being judge and jury to become exeutioner as well. The sooner he is removed from the roads the better
It looks like it takes you off the busy road and then forces the cyclist to try to cross said busy road just before a blind hump of the bridge with no lights or crossing aids. Well planned out whichever council it is.
Nah it just takes you off for a few yards then throws you back onto the road on the brow of the bridge. Not even a kerb build out or a little stretch of painted lane on the road to assist in rejoining the carriageway. No cyclist has ever used it more than once as nobody is daft enough to repeat the mistake. There is a mirror image coming up the bridge in the opposite direction. Absolutely terrible piece of design and I am sure that is what Mr entitled knobhead in the video believes justifies his behaviour here.
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