Near Miss of the Day 137: Needless - and dangerous - overtake at pinch point

The latest video in our Near Miss of the Day Series shows a situation that we imagine all our readers will be familiar with.

You're approaching a pinch point and hear a motor vehicle behind you, and you think to yourself, "Surely they're not going to try and overtake here and try and save a couple of seconds?"

And then they do.

This one happened in Surrey at 5.20pm on the afternoon of 24 April top road.cc reader Marc.

He told us:  "It was on the A24 heading south just to the north of Ashstead

"I had a bright rear light on so there was no possibility of the driver not seeing me.

"This happened on a stretch of road the council has narrowed by hatching the middle of the road and introduced intermittent traffic islands to lower speeds.

"This design though creates pinch points like this one."

Too close! The rest of the road was empty. It would have taken 3 seconds to wait until after the traffic island @surreypolice @roadcc #dangerousdrivers pic.twitter.com/I5Ld32NiHL

— Marc Woodall (@marclwoodall) May 14, 2018

> 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.

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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