Near Miss of the Day 445: "Lytham on a Saturday lunchtime, bloody death trap"

Today's video in our Near Miss of the Day series shows a motorist overtaking a pair of cyclists on a seafront road, with the front rider getting squeezed between the overtaking vehicle and a parked car - leading the rider who filmed the incident to observe, “Lytham on a Saturday lunchtime, bloody death trap.”

It was filmed by road.cc reader Steve, who says on the video: “65 miles into a 100 and managed to catch a wheel then this happened … too close?

“A conversation was had, apparently it was our fault for riding in the road!”

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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