Near Miss of the Day 185: Motorist on phone cuts corner and only sees cyclist at last moment

Today’s near miss features a motorist on the phone cutting the corner when turning into a side road and nearly hitting a cyclist in the process.

The incident took place in Glasgow yesterday at about 8.15pm. The driver was turning right from Beith St into Benalder St.

Ian writes: “He saw me at the last moment and managed to swerve and miss me. As he went past I got a lovely view of the phone in his right hand and him steering with his left.

“Sorry about the swearing. I must learn to just repeat the licence plate like a proper cyclist.

“Unfortunately the licence plate isn't readable on the video and my handlebar-mounted camera was too low to see his phone (maybe that's an argument for a helmet cam), so there's no point submitting the video to Police Scotland.”

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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.

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