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Near Miss of the Day 840: Cyclist narrowly avoids collision with motorist who doesn't wait at roundabout
With Salford's new 'cycling roundabout' the talk of the road.cc live blog the other week, today's Near Miss of the Day serves as a reminder of the dangers we hope to avoid at 'normal' roundabouts...
Comparing it to Near Miss of the Day 838 — where a rider in full hi-vis and with lights was inexplicably unseen by a driver at a mini-roundabout — road.cc reader Richard told us he had noted an improvement in Gloucestershire Police's response to this submission, with the force "actually taking action" and sending out a prosecution notice.
Having waited six months Richard got in touch with the police to try to find out the outcome of his report, receiving the following reply:
These cases are dealt with via an educational course or a fine and points.
If you are needed for court we would contact you.
The cyclist told us: "I thought you may be interested in using this for NMotD. Interesting for two reasons. It is similar to Cyclegranny's recent experience [NMotD 838] but more unusually it actually led to Gloucestershire Constabulary taking action.
"I haven't been contacted so I'm assuming it's been dealt with outside of court. The thing that amazed me is that no attempt was made to leave me any room and the driver actually touched the white centre markings.
"It was purely down to me to get out of the way."
> 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.
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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.
Dan is the road.cc news editor and joined in 2020 having previously written about nearly every other sport under the sun for the Express, and the weird and wonderful world of non-league football for The Non-League Paper. Dan has been at road.cc for four years and mainly writes news and tech articles as well as the occasional feature. He has hopefully kept you entertained on the live blog too.
Never fast enough to take things on the bike too seriously, when he's not working you'll find him exploring the south of England by two wheels at a leisurely weekend pace, or enjoying his favourite Scottish roads when visiting family. Sometimes he'll even load up the bags and ride up the whole way, he's a bit strange like that.
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road.cc reader Richard told us he had noted an improvement in Gloucestershire Police's response to this submission, with the force "actually taking action" and sending out a prosecution notice
Richard got in touch with the police to try to find out the outcome of his report, receiving the following reply:
These cases are dealt with via an educational course or a fine and points
The NIP is just another deception by the police- in the end, they just end up with a course or an 'advice letter'
I'm pretty sure you are correct, however, will the fact that they have been given a NIP make them more careful around cyclists in future. I suspect the answer is yes. It's not long ago I had someone tell me that I had to get out of her way because I was on a bike, "it's in the highway code".
Any action at all is unusual for my submissions which, as you know, I have detailed on the forum here https://road.cc/content/forum/reporting-traffic-offences-298075. The thing that puzzles me is why this one has been given a NIP while others, which have been just as dangerous from my point of view, have not.
Any way, have a good Christmas and we'll hope for better support from our respective forces in the new year.
had simlar this morning, girl/lady just looked right at me and pulled out despite it being a give way juntion...literally eye to eye contact. shes getting reported tonight....GMP should get the ticket out to her sometime Friday so with luck it'll land a couple of days after Christmas. Happy New Year
"girl/lady just looked right at me"
Now I see why this is called "near miss"...
GMP should get the ticket out to her sometime Friday so with luck it'll land a couple of days after Christmas
I am rather unimpressed by this confident expectation- GMP is like Lancashire, so it could be an advice letter or nothing at all. I would be happy to be proved wrong. See above what happened over 'Richard's NIP'!
If it's anything like Lancashire it'll be fuck all, just lame excuses such as their favourite one, "It's not in the public interest" aka we can't be arsed.
Glad you are OK. Thanks for reporting it and good luck. I would be very interested to hear the outcome of the report when you get it.
Had that a few times on a mini-roundabout all young mums as they fetch their Child, School times are by far the most dangerous for us cyclists.
Yep, standard mini roundabout procedure when on a bike - be prepared to give way to traffic entering on your left..
Looks like normal driving to me, lol, but maybe I have low expectations.
> Why they carry on once they've clocked that the cyclist isn't, as expected, giving way to them, is another question
They do carry on, though, and in general they will not even look at you although they know you are there.
Not even sure all of these are either SMIDSY or even SMIDGAF - just that there are a few drivers who genuinely, and completely without malice, believe that they do not have to give way to cyclists. Why they carry on once they've clocked that the cyclist isn't, as expected, giving way to them, is another question . . .
I think there is a measure that could somehow mitigate such situations. All new able bodied motor drivers would have to complete a 5km bicycle commute in urban traffic without any shared cycle lanes. Cost would be almost zero as no extra training would be required. If there was a way to enforce such a thing happening once per year, such driving would be mostly eradicated
I totally agree but there would be too many drivers claiming spurious disabilities to get out of it. The solution? VR, complete with actuated bike platform and exhaust generators. I genuinely think this would be the most effective way of eradicating all of the "just wasn't thinking" incidents that drivers cause. This would free up resources to catch and prosecute the (thankfully relatively few) genuinely dangerous and aggressive drivers
A true progressive licence system is the logical outcome of the Hierarchy of Responsibility. It also aligns with the Institute of Advanced Motoring best practice of multiple mode experience.
Will ensure that responsibility on the highway is correctly understood...
Of course, no politician has the charisma and courage for that!
You forgot Horse & Donkey.
The progressive license already applies to goods vehicles
You must have had a car license for a minimum of two years before you can apply for provisional LGV.
They changed the law in the 90s that split LGV in two - rigid and trailers.
In order to get a C+E (artic and drawbars) you must have a C (rigid over 7.5t) first.
However, there is no requirement to have driven small trucks upto 7.5t before full-on LGV.
Car 2years
C1 - goods vehicles up to 7.5t
C - rigid goods vehicles over 7.5t
C+E - articulated and C with a trailer
That's another classic 'two moving objects on a constant bearing relative to each other will collide' - the cyclist stays on the same line relative to the driver's A pillar and the driver didn't see him because they didn't move their head. Again. Lack of driver due care and attention. "He came out of nowhere" - how many times have you heard that?
You can't claim SMIDSY if you react to the cyclists.
Best to just pretend they don't exist and let their self-preservation instincts do the rest.