Near Miss of the Day 192: This time it's poor cycling, not driving

Today's featured video in our Near Miss of the Day series is a bit different - it shows poor cycling, rather than bad driving.

It was filmed last Sunday on the Trans Pennine Trail at Durham Massey near Altrincham, Greater Manchester, by road.cc reader Bob.

He told us: "Here is a video of the type of cyclists that get us all a bad name.

"My wife and myself had pulled over to the right to pass some oncoming pedestrians (with a pram), then two “cyclists” undertook us, the second one barely got through the gap."

The Trans Pennine Trail forms part of the National Cycle Network, which is developed and managed by Sustrans.

The Bristol-based charity regularly stresses that where routes are shared between cyclists and pedestrians, it is the latter who have priority, and that bike riders should cut their speed accordingly.

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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.

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