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Near Miss of the Day 143: Left hook from a London bus

Our regular feature highlighting close passes caught on camera from around the country – today it’s London

Today’s near miss is a frightening left hook from a Stagecoach bus which was captured by a cyclist’s rear-facing bike camera.

The incident occurred at the junction of Salter Street and Westferry Way in London at about 5.40pm yesterday.

Mark has contacted Stagecoach about the incident, saying: “Your employee performs a deliberate and dangerous ‘left hook’, trapping me besides the side of his vehicle and a steel coach barrier. The appalling behaviour of your employee is proven by a following cyclist gesturing to driver and saying: ‘I saw that! That was shocking!’”

He has yet to receive a response.

Mark submitted the footage to the Met Police and they have already confirmed that they will be issuing a notice of intended prosecution (NIP).

As a rather impressive postscript to this, Mark also submitted footage of a fast and close pass by a van that took place just five minutes before the left hook and the Met are issuing an NIP for that incident as well.

> 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 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

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Hirsute | 5 years ago
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Driver should be sacked and licence for this type of vehicle revoked.

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Brightspark | 5 years ago
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Well done for reporting this and to the Met for taking action.

Two years ago today, Frank Cubis was not so lucky. 

That is why I feel very strongly that all incidents like this must be reported to the Police especially if you are a witness.

"The standard that you walk past is the standard that you accept"

 

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BehindTheBikesheds | 5 years ago
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Ah yes but according to THINK this would be the cyclists fault given their videos and victim blaming bullshit! That is a totally cuntish move by the driver and the license should be revoked and his head stoved in just to make sure he doesn't kill anyone.

No different to using a knife or a sledgehammer in public to threaten/bully someone, should be prosecuted in the same way!

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burtthebike | 5 years ago
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Well done Mark and well done the police for taking these incidents seriously. 

Funny, but the Cycle Safety Review I went to last week didn't really cover dangerous driving, but it's just a tick box exercise to show that they've consulted cyclists before the bring in the dangerous cycling law.

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