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Near Miss of the Day 205: Pushy bus driver in pointless overtake

Our regular feature highlighting close passes caught on camera from around the country and beyond – today it’s Norway

Today’s video in our Near Miss of the Day feature is one of our occasional forays abroad – and shows that UK bus drivers don’t have a monopoly when it comes to inconsiderate driving around cyclists.

It was filmed by Norway-based Scot, Stuart Baillie, who lives in Stavanger, and shows a bus driver overtaking him, then pulling in before the rear of the vehicle is fully past him.

It’s something we see all to often in this series when it comes to long vehicles – and there’s another familiar aspect to this one too as Stuart catches up with the bus at its next stop, showing how unnecessary the driver’s overtaking manoeuvre that put the cyclist in danger was.

> 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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Chris Hayes | 5 years ago
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drittsek...

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alansmurphy | 5 years ago
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I don't often defend the driver but maybe the angle of the garmin offended him  3

 

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