It’s not just cars, lorries vans and buses that cyclists need to look out for in a busy city, as the latest video in our Near Miss of the Day series shows.
Uploaded to YouTube by road.cc reader Laura Fairy, it shows the moment a scooter rider pulled out on her without looking on Upper Ground in London’s South Bank district.
Laura said: “A young lad on a scooter pulls out forgetting to look.
“He did catch up with me and apologise, I hope he learns his lesson and doesn’t end up under one of the lorries that are delivering to the building sites.”
Laura’s YouTube channel also includes one of the more arresting sites we’ve seen caught on a helmetcam – a man crossing the road outside St Paul’s Cathedral with what appears to be a javelin in his hand.
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@road.cc or contact us via the road.cc Facebook page.
23 thoughts on “Near Miss of the Day 19: Scooter rider pulls out on cyclist without looking”
This is London. That happens
This is London. That happens 1,000+ times a day.
Constructive feedback.
Constructive feedback.
Leviathan wrote:
There is nothing whatsoever “constructive” about any of this. This “series” is nothing more than rubberneckking clic-bate that serves no purpose whatsoever.
BarryBianchi wrote:
Yet you keep looking and commenting…
kevvjj wrote:
And your point is what exactly? Comments not coming up to your stratospheric standards, that seem to consist entirely of criticising other forum users. I’d demand your money back if I were you.
BarryBianchi wrote:
Bit rich.
This’d be simpler all round if you flounced. Again.
davel wrote:
Nope – easiest to wait till your mum says it’s time to turn the light off.
that was a clear undertake,
that was a clear undertake, not filtering, an undertake.
Bloody cyclists!
Hope he wasn’t on Conti’s in
Hope he wasn’t on Conti’s in that weather.
Yo Momma thread!
Yo Momma thread!
Yo Momma so fat just thinking of her is making my neck hurt.
Yo momma so fat she jump in
Yo momma so fat she jump in the air she get stuck!
Yo Momma so fat she can’t
Yo Momma so fat she can’t even jump to a conclusion.
Yo momma so fat she goes to
Yo momma so fat she goes to KFC and licks other peoples fingers.
Yo Momma so fat her waistband
Yo Momma so fat her waistband is a strava segment.
Laura sounds very much like a
Laura sounds very much like a man…
Yo momma so fat she always
Yo momma so fat she always involved in a close pass
Yo Momma so fat lying down
Yo Momma so fat lying down counts as an Everest.
yes, but the idiot on the
yes, but the idiot on the bike continues to pedal fast even if he sees the asshole coming. claiming way is dangerous for cyclists. be predictive and assume you are always on a stop sign. they have a stop sign , but they will not give a shit about you.
tsarouxaz wrote:
I was in old town Kalamata some years ago and noticed that none of the smaller junctions (intersections) had Give Way or Stop signs (or lines), yet eveybody stopped, looked then proceeded for fear of being sideswiped.
Wouldn’t work in this country, we’re too thick.
don simon wrote:
Yo momma too thick across!
Forget yo Mamma. Is no one
Forget yo Mamma. Is no one going to talk about the guy with the Javelin?! I’m sure there must be a law against running around with something like that!
dmack wrote:
That’s not a javelin: he was just pleased to see Yo Momma.
Yo momma so fat all of the
Yo momma so fat all of the vehicles are within her event horizon and therefore cannot reach escape velocity.