Near Miss of the Day 168: Van driver crosses solid line, forcing cyclists out of way

Today’s video in our Near Miss of the Day series perhaps isn’t the worst case of driving we’ve featured – but it is one of those things that for urban cyclists add up and make commuting an unpleasant experience at times.

It was filmed last Monday morning on Jamaica Road in Southwark road.cc reader Cycle London and shows a van driver crossing a solid white line into a bus lane where there are cyclists riding and then when one shakes their head in exasperation, they get a beep of the horn for their trouble.

Cycle London, who points out in the description of the video on YouTube that there are three separate offences committed, told us: “What bothered me as much as the forcing his way into a group of cyclists, was the petulant sound of his horn.”'

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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.

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