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Close pass near Redruth (source Paul Dickey Facebook video still).PNGAs Devon & Cornwall Police say they'll explore Close Pass campaign, cyclist near Redruth experiences a particularly shocking one
On the same day road.cc exclusively revealed that Devon & Cornwall Police were exploring targeting drivers who pass cyclists too closely, a cyclist riding near Redruth was subject to a particularly shocking one, with the aggressive motorist almost hitting an oncoming car, too.
Paul Dickey from Carnkie near Redruth told the Plymouth Herald that he was riding close to Four Lanes when he heard a car approaching from behind.
Posting the video to Facebook, he described how the oncoming driver’s face had a “shocked expression” as she realised what the driver planned to do.
The 42-year-old said: "I could hear the engine revving and knew it was either a boy racer or someone in a hurry.
"Then I saw the shocked expression on the face of the woman who was driving towards me."
It was only when he reviewed the footage captured on his Garmin Virb camera that he realised just how close the driver had been to hitting both him and the oncoming car.
He told the newspaper: "We get it all the time, "this sort of thing does happen a lot."
It was incidents of this nature that let to West Midlands Police establishing its widely-praised Give Space, be Safe initiative last year.
As we reported yesterday, Devon & Cornwall Police is one of the forces that is looking to adopt the initiative.
Six more police forces looking to set up close pass operations
> Six more police forces looking to set up close pass operations
Its head of roads policing, Chief Inspector Adrian Liesk, told us: “We are going to send up a team to learn from [West Midlands Police] and see how we can develop the idea for our 22,000 km of road network in a mixture of urban and rural environments.
“We are keen to develop our own educational input to enable effective hard hitting delivery at the roadside.”
After being urged to do so, Mr Dickey has passed footage of yesterday’s incident to police.
"I just want the guy to get educated and to see how close it was, and don't really want to get anyone into trouble,” he said.
"I'll be happy if gets one person educated, or makes one person think," he added.
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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I know the lane well, and I must say this shit doesn't often happen to me. I take the lane. My average speeds tend to be somewhere near the rate that motorised traffic goes on the flat twisty stuff, faster on the downhills. You get the odd tuss who takes umbrage to it, and sometimes I can hear heavy braking behind me, but I never get fucktards trying to overtake like that. The gap is not there.
On a side note, the gutter there is full of slurry and other lovely runoff chemicals from the fields. Aside from the woeful grip, puncture and close pass risk, why would you want that shit on your bidon?
""I just want the guy to get educated and to see how close it was, and don't really want to get anyone into trouble,” he said."
I really really admire that attitude. If someone did that to me, I think I'd me more:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tmN43MiZqw
This guy owes his life to the alertness of the citroen driver (and a little luck) if he hadn't stopped the bmw would have hit the rider or the citroen and then the rider
Deliberate piece of dangerous driving. The police could also trace the other driver and get a statement to show the danger
Dear police, you have his plates, just do what you have to
It's my neck of the woods. Kids pride themselves on racing round the backroads. Visibility is terrible and there's no space at the best of times. Riding in the center of the road is just going to get you killed.
"I just want the guy to get educated and to see how close it was, and don't really want to get anyone into trouble,”
Rather more generous than me, I'd want the book thrown at them. How would you feel if you read about this driver killing someone, and you hadn't taken the opportunity to report him? Not getting him into trouble is a comendable sentiment, but we need people like this to be taken off the road, not allow them to carry on driving like that.
Horribly close. Congratulations to the cyclist for keeping a stiff upper lip!
Not completely dissimilar to my one a couple of weeks ago, actually: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ime2OdukfRk
I don't know whether I am necessarily helping by doing this, but when I am driving my car if I see a cyclist coming towards me on a narrowish road and there are motor vehicles behind him, I move out from the verge to be almost brushing the centre line just to make the point that there is not enough room for the motorist to overtake the cyclist. I like to think that if they are complete morons and still go fo it, I can swerve back again to give them the gap if necessary.
I try to do this, it really doesn't stop some idiots though, they are quite happy to play chicken and risk the cyclist's life.
I also wouldn't ride anywhere near that close to the edge of the road, got frightened into doing exactly that after a nasty hospital stay and ended up jackknifing on a terrible bit of tarmac. That said, in this particular case, being more towards the middle may have meant this guy got hit from behind at ~50mph, seeing as the BMW driver was going for a gap that almost everyone else would say wasn't even there.
Sorry to dig out an old thread, but this post stayed in my mind and I consciously did this whilst driving last night on a narrowish Lincolnshire road. 2 car passing width but not 2 car and a cyclist width.
Seeing a cyclist coming towards me from quite some distance (thanks to his excellent lights, 1 fixed, 1 flashy and because his top was reflective). I was able to judge that a car coming up behind the cyclist was going to pass at exactly the same time as either myself or the car that I was following. The car I was following sort of squeezed over towards the verge but there really still would not be enough room for a safe overtake, so I held my nerve and took a deliberate middle of the road position.
The car which was coming up fast behind the cyclist was forced to slow ( brake lights illuminating the hedgerow behind) and wait.
This could have gone tits up quicker than an unscripted Donald Trump press conference, but I figured that if the cyclist was so visible from the front he was also most likely highly visible to the driver behind.
Usually in such a situation and with so much time to see what was developing I would simply adjust my speed to prevent the 3 vehicle passing configuration but this time the car in front of me was a factor outside my control.
Anyway it worked out, I just hope that the cyclist didn't think I was driving at him / her.
thats nothing mate. I had -20cm of room haha
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktToBI9MTH8
Clearly you don't realise that Range Rovers have absolute rights of way. Note its not the driver but the car - always! Anyway you shold have braked! Must have hurt.
I take it you delayed the poor chaps journey to work too.
Being serious I hope you got full restitution from him
double post
All going well. Once the nonsense reaches boiling point the prophecies tell that a true Cycling Vigilante will rise up, and execute morons on the spot. Think Judge Dredd, but with a 550 watt FTP, 2000 watt sprint.
And aero jersey.
A BMW driver, how surprising.
One for http://rate-driver.co.uk/RX52RXR
https://www.check-mot.service.gov.uk/
120k miles at the last MOT last month
Also a few odd failures and notices on the MOT in the past such as:
Reason(s) for failure
Direction indicator incorrect colour both rear when operated (1.4.A.2f)
What's odd about these MOT failures, and what is the relevance of quoting it at all? The vehicle has an MOT, and a new one too. This has nothing at all to do with the quality of the driving.
Part of my comment went missing.
I was joking about typical BMW drivers and not indicating etc.
Ah, standard boy racer mod.
Reading plates, so its probably been even closer than that to cyclists in the past
Right. Actually on a BMW of this age where the indicator lenses are clear, the light bulbs are orange. With time, the orange paint on these bulbs fades / cracks allowing too much white light through. Then it will fail the MOT. No mods.
I would have thought a personalised plate by the look of it. Reinforces the steroetype of being as right chopper in a shit german car that thinks he owns the road.
Unbelievable. Hope this gets updated to say they identified and punished the f**ktard
That's terrible.
But personally, on a narrow quiet lane like that, I would not be so close to the verge - it encourages drivers to squeeze through a gap that isn't there. More assertive riding would have kept them back. It's not as if there was a whole line of traffic coming the other way!
also, pick the dry bit - no one likes the wet patch!
"...don't want to get anyone into trouble" ?! I'd quite like to punch the moron in the face several times!!!
This.
Wowzer, millimetres to spare. That one needs their vehicle(s) and licence taken away!