Near Miss of the Day 560: Overtaking driver hits cyclist’s elbow – and has no idea (includes swearing)

A driver whose wing mirror struck a cyclist on the elbow had no idea how closely he had overtaken the rider in the latest video featured in our (not so) Near Miss of the Day series.

The cyclist on the receiving end of the incident on Maidstone Road, Rochester was road.cc reader Tom, who told us: “I had a close enough pass with a driver twatting my elbow on Monday. Otherwise, a nice ride.

“I haven't reported it to the police because rightly so, he hit me, but he stopped and apologised.

“I feel like I shit him up a bit and that could have been all he needed,” Tom added.

> Near Miss of the Day turns 100 - Why do we do the feature and what have we learnt from it?

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 (link is external)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