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Near Miss of the Day 817: “Both drivers gave me a wide pass – shame about the cyclist coming the other way”
Today’s edition of Near Miss of the Day features the rare spectacle of not one, not two, but three motorists leaving ample space between their cars and the cyclist they were passing. Unfortunately for the terrified cyclist coming the other way, however, these wide passes resulted in two close calls and an almighty scare.
This double near miss took place yesterday morning on a straight, mile-long stretch of road in Cheshire known as the Tatton Mile, which road.cc reader Bob, who sent us the footage, describes as “a popular cycling route but also a bit of a rat run with a 60mph speed limit”.
> Near Miss of the Day 816: Driver surrenders licence after sideswiping cyclist at 50mph
“Three cars pass me giving a nice wide pass,” Bob tells us. “Unfortunately, the last two were very close to the cyclist going the other way”, prompting a shout of terror from the oncoming cyclist as the driver of the blue car attempts to squeeze between the two riders on the narrow road.
According to Bob, the car belonging to the driver who committed the first dodgy overtake is currently untaxed.
Both drivers will likely escape punishment for the tight squeeze, however, owing to the police’s rules regarding video submissions.
“Unfortunately, I switched off the camera so I could find [the footage] easily,” Bob says. “So I cannot send it through to the police as they want a minute after the incident.”
Who knows, maybe the other rider kept his camera on for slightly longer?
> 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
After obtaining a PhD, lecturing, and hosting a history podcast at Queen’s University Belfast, Ryan joined road.cc in December 2021 and since then has kept the site’s readers and listeners informed and enthralled (well at least occasionally) on news, the live blog, and the road.cc Podcast. After boarding a wrong bus at the world championships and ruining a good pair of jeans at the cyclocross, he now serves as road.cc’s senior news writer. Before his foray into cycling journalism, he wallowed in the equally pitiless world of academia, where he wrote a book about Victorian politics and droned on about cycling and bikes to classes of bored students (while taking every chance he could get to talk about cycling in print or on the radio). He can be found riding his bike very slowly around the narrow, scenic country lanes of Co. Down.
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Yes, 100% correct. The one putting the oncoming cyclist at risk would indeed be the overtaking driver. I couldn't have put it better myself.
Any excuse for the Old Bill to do sod all as usual. All we can do is keep sending in this sort of stuff and maybe one day they will get the message and get off their arses and send some drivers NIP's
I read the headline as 2 drivers gave me space but the cyclist coming the other way missed me by cm !
Has anyone asked the police why they want a minute after the incident? How can that possibly be relevant to the commission of the crime? It's already been committed so unless I've misunderstood the laws of physics and time, the minute after isn't going to somehow make it that the crime didn't happen.
I asked the Met a couple of years back about the "after" requirement, they said we need to check the complainant hasn't abused the other party in a way that could undermine the prosecution...when I asked how could anything that happened after the event possibly undermine a prosecution they said, "We are simply acting on the advice of our legal experts", in other words we haven't got a reason.
I know there are some legal people here; I'm curious - is it possible to do something later in time which bears on actions which occurred before? Unless it is suggested that those later actions are shown to be typical behaviour and likely to have also occurred previously?
For example, motorist commits a dangerous close pass, I catch up and berate them, banging my fist of their roof. Clearly that did not provoke the close pass, but might it suggest I was of a character to have done something similar earlier which "provoked" the motorist?
In which case I would expect the police to act on a complaint/seek evidence from the motorist of this earlier provocative aggression. I wouldn't expect them to demand it of me, especially not in the absence of any such complaint. It is pure and simple putting up non-legal obstacles justified by pretend-legal 'advice'.
Elsewhere, good article by Helen Pidd in today's Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/aug/30/why-do-some-people-...
Thanks; that article says it all.
Depends... Do you have a TARDIS?
Presumably to make sure that all is in order, such that Loophole Freeman and his unsavoury ilk can't worm their clients out of a charge on a technicality.
Evidence that the incident was different to the minute before and after i.e. that it is seen in context. Obviously an opportunity to record how you feel about the incident too since the court will see the whole video. Symptoms of physical and mental state as you see fit...
They want a minute after the incident? Stupid and inconsistent with other forces submission requirements.
Indeed. Kent Police do not yet# have a camera upload application but will request the video, with no nonsense about the time. Obviously video with timestamp is appreciated but not required.
# camera upload application is in development according to the PCC.
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