Near Miss of the Day 184: Overtaking driver risks hitting cyclist head-on

Today's video in our Near Miss of the Day series shows, as ever, some very poor driving - although rather than a close pass from behind, it depicts a motorist overtaking another car, the manoeuvre bringing his vehicle perilously close to a cyclist riding in the opposite direction.

It was filmed in Rubery, Birmingham by road.cc reader Phil on his morning commute. He told us: "Car decided to overtake another car and was really close, probably the closest yet on my commute to work."

While there is no rear-facing footage, just how risky the overtake was can be gauged from the fact that there is a driver passing Phil from behind, and who as a result of the other motorist may not have been able to have given him as much space as might otherwise have been the case.

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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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