Today’s video in our Near Miss of the Day series shows the moment a motorist in Essex pulled out in front of a cyclist, forcing him to hit the brakes.
While the incident was reported to police, the road.cc reader who filmed it told us that he was unaware if any action was taken against the driver, possibly because the footage got lost while police changed their system for dealing with video evidence submitted by the public.
”I reported this to Essex Police back in August,” said JK, “but they were changing submission systems and it seemed to have got lost in the switchover, so I don't know what happened.”
He added: ”Also their emails say:
Due to the high number of offences reported to us, we are regrettably unable to enter into any discussion with regards to the outcome of your submission of footage to us.
”So it's hard to find out what happened.”
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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
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