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Near Miss of the Day 52: Driver pulls out on rider ... on road.cc test ride
One of the reasons we started our Near Miss of the Day series is because just like you, we love getting out on our bikes and just like you, we encounter thoughtless or worse, downright dangerous drivers on a daily basis.
So today's offering has an extra resonance for us, because it was filmed by road.cc reviewer Stu Kerton while he was testing a bike - a Ribble Sportive Racing Disc, if you're curious - for the site.
The incident happened near Zeals in Wiltshire, with a croissant munching female driver at a junction pulling out in front of Stu, who fortunately was alert to the danger.
We're happy to report that both he - and the bike - are fine.
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.
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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Welcome to my urban commute. Every junction is an adventure......
Was it reported? Perhaps the only way to effect change is people having the police making them aware of their dangerous actions.
I shouldn't have too but when I see a car pull out I expect sheep to follow, I guess Stu thought similar
This is my commute pretty much every day.
she's a zombie
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Fuck - how fast was that overtake at the end?
No doubt she would excuse her actions with something along the lines of :
'That cyclist must have actually jumped in front of my car, because I didn't even see him.'
Witnessed just such a wipeout on Sunday. Cyclist was ‘T boned’. Took 20 mins for the ambulance to arrive & the poor woman/victim was screaming in agony the whole time. Private hire taxi driver......
Good restraint there Stu, cracking put-down
The brakes on the ribble seemed pretty good when he needed them !
If it had been a rim braked test ride then he'd have been through the drivers window.
Lovely. And, utter nonsense.
I laughed. I think we were supposed to.
Maybe. I'm sure Stu isn't such a delicate snowflake as me, but given another road.cc member was in an ambulance two days ago with multiple broken bones from a cycling crash (and Stu was with him) you'll hopefully forgive me for the sensitivity. As reported in another road.cc article today.
Look555 makes a lot of sense.
Also drivers look for cars vans and lorries. The government often show adverts on TV saying we should check twice for motorbikes, but never for cyclists...
I often wonder that too.
When I approach a car a junction like this I move from the standard position through to the centre of the road. First I believe their eyes are not trained to take in the position we would sit in normally, you also don't know if you're in shade. Also the lateral movement is yet another indicator of movement for the driver's retina and brain to note. Lastly you should always be aware at the exact time they "checked" for traffic you could have very well been hidden behind their front pillar. Its a scary thought that they don't see you and they should and they deserve a little bit of "effing and blinding" for good measure but seriously we should all expect that it will happen.
All hail the robot cars.
Do you think the rider would have had time to shoulder check and move to the middle of the road between these 2 cars pulling out or do you think we should all swerve into the middle of the road and hope for the best?
Most drivers I see at junctions, their first look is to the left side-Why!? Traffic is coming from the right on your side of the road.
I usually pip my car horn when I see a driver looking the wrong way as I approach them at a junction, pisses the wife off, but has saved me many times from impatient junction jumpers.