Near Miss of the Day 583: “I'm banging their car in panic” says cyclist who was close-passed

A cyclist in Nottinghamshire has told road.cc that he was “banging their car in panic” when a motorist made a very close pass on him, as shown in today’s video in our Near Miss of the Day feature.

“I'm no stranger to close passes on my daily commute in to Nottingham,” said Philip, who recorded the footage.

“I report most of them and Nottinghamshire police always do nothing about it. I'll report this one as always in case they change their mind.

“In my eyes this is just dangerous driving,” he said. “I'm passed within inches to the point I'm banging their car in panic for them to move away from me.

“You can’t see in the video but the driver just stared straight ahead as though I didn't exist,” he added.

> 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