Today's submission in our Near Miss of the Day series shows a shocking left-hook by a taxi driver in Manchester.
It was sent in by road.cc reader Bob, who says in the description to the video: "Taxi overtook at speed as I was part way across a junction, then turned left. Saved a couple of seconds, but could have killed me."
Bob told us that he has passed the video on to Greater Manchester Police under their Operation Considerate and added, "Would be nice if someone could calculate the cars speed."
> 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.
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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
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