Near Miss of the Day 544: Close-pass driver hardly deviates from line

Often the most startling close pass footage comes from rear-facing cameras – and that’s what we have on our Near Miss of the Day feature today, with the footage showing a motorist hardly deviating from their line as they overtake a cyclist.

Smigster, who sent us the clip, said: “Cycling home from work in Coventry I experienced this close pass.

“It was only when reviewing the footage that evening that I realised how late the car changes direction to avoid me.

“Car untaxed at the time and now also without an MOT. I reported to Warwickshire Police but didn't hear the outcome.”

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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