We’ve been doing Near Miss of the Day long enough to know that unfortunately it’s rare for a road user to get a serious punishment for their dangerous behaviour. We’ve seen more ignored reports, ‘no action taken’ or warning letters than we care to remember…
So it sometimes comes as a shock when a submission actually includes feedback from the relevant police force that the individual involved has been banned for their driving.
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Tom sent us a couple of clips, both of which led to successful prosecutions. First up, the driver who overtook into oncoming traffic got three penalty points.
However, the more eye-catching of the two is the second, featuring a driver who failed to give way to the rider at a roundabout, landing themselves a six-month ban.
“Most of the above incidents were in and around Botley, I’ve now stopped cycling there as I no longer feel safe,” Tom told us.
“Most of the incidents I report get no response. I have 10 more here, all of which I feel meet the standard for driving without due care and attention, which I have had zero feedback on. So I don’t know what action (if any) Hampshire police have taken.”
Here’s the complete list for your bumper Saturday Near Miss(es) of the day…
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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@road.cc or send us a message via the road.cc Facebook page.
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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
7 thoughts on “Near Miss of the Day 733: Driver gets six-month ban for failing to give way to cyclist at roundabout”
Impressive.
Impressive.
Time for a nationwide standard on this
Essex would be nfa or letter if you are lucky.
Lancs – there was no van. Any claims to the contrary are false.
DWDCA isn’t a 6 month ban so
DWDCA isn’t a 6 month ban so presumably they totted up to 12 plus points. Not showing up would have seen the mag more likely to go for 6 points. Hopefully a nice shock for the idiot!
I didn’t attend court for
I didn’t attend court for either of the hearings, so I don’t have any additional information. Not sure why the first incident went to court rather than being dealt with by a FPN. For the second incident, “Totting Up” seems like the most likely explanation for the ban – I think it’s very unusual to get more than 6 points for DWDCA and most of the time it’s only 3.
Don’t think due csre can have
Don’t think due csre can have a CoFP so would be mag, assuming that’s the charge.
fingers crossed their insurance bill will keep them off for longer.
If there is the possibility
If there is the possibility of a ban, then there has to be a court appearance and it cannot be dealt with by an FPN (and a driver can choose to go to court over an FPN that they wish to challenge).
Must have been quite an unpleasant individual to have not persuaded the magistrates that their lives would be destroyed with their right to driving a car being denied to them.
IanMSpencer wrote:
My gut instinct is that its more likely to be the kind of individual who simply ignnores the ban anyway, working on the theory of “what the chances I get stopped anyway”
I’m sure the first one went
I’m sure the first one went to court as the driver wanted to challenge the charge. The accused will only be sent a couple of video stills in which to decided to accept the fixed penalty / course offer or please not guilty and go to court. I’m guessing their recollection of the event was different to what the video showed, and wanted to test it. Looking at the costs, I’d say it was worth the punt as the punishment was no different to just taking the fixed penalty.
The ban is most likely to do with points accumulation. I expect that, because the lack of consideration / care shown by the van driver involved a vulnerable road user (the cyclist), the charge was automatically increased to a level 2 infringement, which means automatic court appearance and 6 point minimum.