Near Miss of the Day 70: One reader catalogues a year of close passes etc

Given it's that time of year when people in the media are working on round-ups of what's happened in the past year, it's timely that this video landed in road.cc's inbox today.

Sent in by road.cc reader Martin Pascoe, the video was actually uploaded to YouTube in April this year, but captures a year's worth of poor driving encournterd by Martin while cycling in and around Exeter.

Close passes by drivers of cars, buses, lorries, motorists parking or driving in cycle lanes or failing to give right of way at roundabouts ... it's all here, as is the momeent a man who looks rather the worse for wear walks across a pedestrian crossing and staggers into the wall on the other side.

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.