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Near Miss of the Day 191: Left hook by scooter riders and skip lorry close pass (warning - contains swearing)
To be on the receiving end of one bit of dangerous driving during your morning commute is bad enough - to be on the receiving end of two though on the same journey may leave you wishing you'd stayed in bed.
That's what happened last week to road.cc reader Jon in today's featured Near Miss of the Day video.
First, he was left-hooked by a pair of scooter riders - resulting in some understandably strong language from Jon - then later on was subjected to a close pass by the driver of a skip lorry.
> 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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Scooter riders on L plates and a skip lorry - two categories of road user I've learned to be very cautious of.
Not really a left hook by the scooters. Left hook is when someone overtakes and turns across you. The scooters were in front of him and crossing the road. I wouldn't trust a scooter rider as far as I could throw their scooter, so hardly surprising that they jumped in front of him.
Definitely the cyclist's fault. It's raining, he should have stayed in bed.
Yes, a very poor pass by the skip lorry. Definitely report it to the company. It looks to me like the cyclist did try and assert road space by moving more into a secondary road position as the vehicle approached, but then moved back in when the lorry didn't sound like it was slowing up at all. I tend to ride in a strong secondary all the time these days.