Near Miss of the Day 72: Distracted driver on roundabout

The latest video in our Near Miss of the Day series is the second we've featured by Norway-based Scot, Stuart Baillie, who lives in Stavanger.

Stuart told us: "The driver appeared to be distracted by something below dashboard level, I assume a mobile.

"One good solid Scottish/Viking roar woke her up though."

He added: "It was daylight, with my normal light/clothing setup for riding where there's traffic."

A case of  Beklager, jeg så deg ikke (assuming Google Translate's rendering into Norwegian of "Sorry mate, I didn't see you" is correct).

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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