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Near Miss of the Day 171: Flatbed truck driver can’t wait

Our regular feature highlighting near misses caught on camera from around the country – today it’s Eccles

It’s not hard to see today’s near miss coming. A flatbed truck bearing down on a cyclist, regular traffic in the opposite direction, no pause, no slowing – this driver’s overtaking regardless of what’s in the other lane. Where’s the problem? If they have to move back over, it’ll only be the cyclist who gets squeezed.

The incident happened on August 2, on Monton Road in Eccles, Manchester.

Tom says it’s an area where he encounters close passes quite a lot. He reckons the van missed him by just a couple of inches.

“Stupidly, I transferred the file from my Go Pro to my computer without keeping the file on the camera as well, and so can't report it via the system in Greater Manchester according to their forms.”

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.

> What to do if you capture a near miss or close pass (or worse) on camera while cycling

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1750nick | 5 years ago
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Why don't we (the cycling community) / road.cc start some sort of online register of this sort of thing - to list in particular offending company names? I for one would look at this list and if there was an offending company on there - I would go elsewhere and choose another company for what ever I was looking for (coach firm/builders...etc). My work is looking at having some building work completed and I have already found out what scaffolding firm they use first before proceeding and agreeing to this - to ensure it's not one of the scafolding firms that regulary give cyclists aload of agro in Bristol! If everyone done this - it could have a very postitive and substantial impact to these firms particulary when they start loosing business..............

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longassballs | 5 years ago
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I got knocked off there last year as well a little further up on half edge lane, woman turning on to Victoria Road.

I think myself lucky considering two people were killed separately a couple of weeks later very near. You can't even cycle to hospital...

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Chez_worldwide | 5 years ago
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The whole length of Monton Road is one big danger zone. Since getting knocked off there last year I try to avoid it. 

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vonhelmet replied to Chez_worldwide | 5 years ago
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Chez_worldwide wrote:

The whole length of Monton Road is one big danger zone. Since getting knocked off there last year I try to avoid it. 

Liverpool Street is the worst. Absolute hell, but pretty much your only choice coming in from that direction.

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Chez_worldwide replied to vonhelmet | 5 years ago
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vonhelmet wrote:

Chez_worldwide wrote:

The whole length of Monton Road is one big danger zone. Since getting knocked off there last year I try to avoid it. 

Liverpool Street is the worst. Absolute hell, but pretty much your only choice coming in from that direction.

Unless I'm in a hurry/ late I usually commute to and from town via the canal. It's a bit further and the geese can be a bit bolshy, but compared to the roads its positively pleasant. Just got to watch out for the mobile phone zombies around Castlefield!

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vonhelmet | 5 years ago
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I cycle that road most days on the way to work. From there onwards into Manchester it’s basically terrible.

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Russell Orgazoid | 5 years ago
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No doubt if you murder someone on cam but lose the file, you won't be charged either.

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hawkinspeter replied to Russell Orgazoid | 5 years ago
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Plasterer's Radio wrote:

No doubt if you murder someone on cam but lose the file, you won't be charged either.

You'd probably need to lose the body too.

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burtthebike | 5 years ago
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Maybe the police can't help because of their arcane rules, but the vehicle is run by City West Housing Trust, so how about asking them to take action?  https://www.citywesthousingtrust.org.uk/contact-us

 

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