Near Miss of the Day 250: Cyclist overtaking badly parked car gets very close pass from impatient driver

Today’s video in our Near Miss of the Day series shows the moment when a cyclist who is passing a car parked partly on the pavement and partly on the road is subjected to a very close pass by a motorist who cannot wait a couple of seconds until it would be safe to overtake.

It happened last Tuesday on Chorlton Road in Walton-le-Dale, Preston to road.cc reader Jon, who said: “They have a good view of the parked cars and oncoming traffic but just keep coming, passing very closely!

He said the motorist “just didn’t care and did a bad, unsafe SMMGIF [sorry mate must get in front].

“It looks like they didn’t alter their speed and were just going to squeeze past wherever it happened, oncoming traffic or not,” he added.

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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.

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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.

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