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Near Miss of the Day 592: “Hard to tell if it counts as a cut-up, close pass, or a must get in-front”
We freely admit that here at road.cc towers, we sometimes wonder exactly how to categorise incidents shown in videos submitted by our readers to the Near Miss of the Day feature – was it a close pass, did the motorist cut the cyclist up, or was the person behind the steering wheel simply one of those who Must. Get. In. Front – also known as MGIF – of the person on the bike?
Well, this one has a bit of everything, so let’s congratulate the motorist for doing the hat-trick … please contact us on info [at] road.cc to contact your, um, match ball.
Bob, the road.cc rider who sent in the clip, said: “A typical ‘must get in front’ driver, taken today in Altrincham, Greater Manchester.
“Hard to tell if it counts as a cut-up, close pass, or a must get in-front. Perhaps it is all three.
He added: “Just a good job he didn’t stop where he pulled in.”
> 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 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
Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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- ktache 3 hours 16 min ago
The small frame, the aggressive posture, lots of standover height.
- mctrials23 4 hours 12 min ago
As i've said before, the police should be sued for a lot of money when someone they have knowingly ignored has gone on to commit a serious crime....
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Good stuff. Now do it on cycleway C9 through Hammersmith to Chiswick.
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It's technically allowed but it's not known as "London's Orbital Car Park" for nothing.
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You're defending bombing hospitals and refugee camps and starving children.
- mattw 9 hours 7 min ago
Used car salesman is a complete attention-seeking plank....
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I don't know if they're any better, but they's certainly become more boring.
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At risk of being cynical, and stereotyping the police, it's so they don't have to leave the comfort of their panda cars and pursue on foot when...
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It must be me but it all seemed in slo-mo.
Driver seemed to cut in too soon on a slow moving cyclist.
Time that cyclists were allowed to carry AK-47s to rid the world of such incompetent, aggressive, inconsiderate people immediately. At the very least it would save all that court time, and justice delayed is justice denied.
But cyclists would never accept anything as affordable and heavy as an AK-47.
They would likely end up fetishising titanium guns handmade by Moravian artisans, that dented and backfired half the time....if they at all managed to get them out of their prized waxed canvas downtube holsters....
or a 3D printed plastic gun, AKA the one John Malkovich used in the film In the line of fire. Only a few grams there and plenty powerful enough to dispense with the dickweeds.
Just inept.
With potential consequences for a vulnerable road user which the driver needs to be made aware of. Has it been reported?
You missed out the obligitary "oncoming vehicle"!
Clearly the oncoming car passing the parked car opposite was part of the problem. The invisible cyclist is just collateral, after all, why should a motorist have to wait until it's safe to pass, think of those seconds lost!