On our Near Miss of the Day feature today, we have another close pass on a country lane, with a Peugeot driver overtaking a cyclist with just inches to spare.
It happened to road.cc reader Simon, who told us it took place in "West Cornwall, between St Just and Sancreed, between Leswidden Farm and Grumbla."
“It's actually stand-out rare in this neck of the woods – even the couriers are careful as horses are as common as bikes,” Simon told us.
“You see this twonk haring off towards a blind bend – imagine a horse around that corner.”
He added: “No report to the police because I thought he might be local – and findable! No such luck!”
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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
Careful there sweetie, you're liable to do yourself a mischief throwing your toys from the pram that hard....
Is social media required to make police reports in Edinburgh?
(I've marked in bold some bits about using that stat, and italicised the bit you might be using it for)....
We should have another column for horse riders and their problems. Motorists kill or injure about 4 horses a week apparently, but cyclists......
It is indeed victim blaming but it's not a new one 😐
It sure is!
If this happened to my wife or mother I would make it my personal mission in life to find and torture this person until he accidentally died.
I recieved notifications. Make sure you have game emails ticked in your account settings.
Drivers are shocking nowadays. I would fully favour and back having to retake your driving test every 5 to 10 years, and theory around the same or...
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