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Near Miss of the Day 176: Bus driver in wrong lane cuts up cyclist on roundabout
The latest video in our Near Miss of the Day series shows a bus driver in Sheffield who was waiting in the wrong lane to enter a roundabout cutting across a cyclist. almost forcing him off the road.
It was submitted by road.cc reader Kamil, who told us: "I recently encountered a dangerous situation where I was close passed by a bus.
"I was on the inside of the roundabout when a bus continued straight on despite being in the left turn only lane, nearly swiping me off the road.
"It occurred on 13 July in Sheffield and I complained to the bus company. Sadly they failed to respond to my complaint email."
> 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’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
Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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If this is on one of the cyclists regular routes, then he should learn the bus routes, where they turn on and off his route, and which way they go at roundabouts and junctions. It is part of defensive cycling, and will make things safer for him.
If this is the bus driver's regular job, then maybe it would make sense to learn how to drive without endangering other people unnecessarily. That would make things safer for everyone.
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Lives are being unnecessarily lost and serious injuries are being incurred for as long as the law goes unenforced. We desperately need more Police operations that target dangerous close passes, in hotspots where cyclists are most at-risk.
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I'm just intrigued by what the bus driver would have done if it had been a car instead of a cyclist. Given that the bus was stationary and the cyclist must have been visible to the driver for some time, I'm thinking that this was quite intentional.
Let’s hope next time, as there will inevitably be a next time, it’s a police car and there is lots of mangled car. Maybe, just maybe, then the police will do something.
He probably would.
Exactly the same. Looks like a really poorly performed attempt at straddling lanes. See HC rule 187. Combined with not checking mirrors.
Glad the person on a bike managed to avoid a collision. I'd have sworn more.
Going up the inside of a bus on a roundabout makes you a knob if you're in a car or on a bike.
Yes, and sticking rabbits in your ears doesn't improve your listening skill.
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Not just the above, but if you know you are in the wrong lane; for convenience, other traffic or whatever then you would surely be extra super careful of other vehicles being in the correct lane (in this instance positioned on your offside nearest the roundabout) and be prepared to yield if necessary.
The deliberate tight line to the roundabout is particularly egregious, not even as if the cyclist was hidden in a blind spot.
Poor driving but I can see how that manouvre might be routine for the bus driver, especially if there's traffic given that they've just pulled away from the bus stop.
Saying that, they had plenty of time to get over into the correct lane here and could have at least used their indicators to signal that they weren't going left. Just lazy thoughtless driving from someone who probably does that same manouvre half a dozen times a day.
Send email with link to video, specifically requesting a resoponse.
When no response is forthcoming, forward mail back to them enquiring why there was no reply, with copy to local papers and preferably MP too. When they see it is going out not just to the company, but to the media as well, they might suddenly reply.
looks like it has one of those yellow stickers telling you to beware passing this vehicle on the inside. Looks like they should put one on the other side also!
On a more serious note, i've come to accept that sometimes professional drivers are cr@p but can't stand the fact that a (most likely) publicly subsidised organisation can't respond to a public complaint and indicate that they have taken measures to stop it happening in the future.
If this kind of near miss happened in a factory or construction site, and the company took no reasonable, remedial action, the HSE could throw the book at them for any further incidents. Why is this acceptable on a public road?
He was on the racing line!