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Near Miss of the Day 735: MGIF driver squeezes past cyclist despite oncoming lorry (video includes swearing)

Our regular series featuring close passes from around the country - today it's Glasgow.....

MGIF stands for 'must get in front', if you haven't already heard, and sums up perfectly this incident involving a driver lacking the patience to wait a few seconds for a safer place to overtake.

Instead, they push their way in front of the cyclist, narrowly avoiding a collision with the HGV in the process.

road.cc reader Graeme was riding along Clarkston Road in Glasgow when the incident happened: "The driver went to pass me but once she was alongside noticed a lorry coming in the other direction. Instead of falling back they moved in very close and then right across me.  

> Near Miss of the Day 734: "What are you doing?" — Driver ignores cyclist at roundabout

"I did report it to the police. The officer took an action to go and speak to the driver.  He emailed to say he had tried and failed to contact her and would try again. I’ve not heard from them again."

> 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

Dan joined road.cc in 2020, and spent most of his first year (hopefully) keeping you entertained on the live blog. At the start of 2022 he took on the role of news editor. Before joining road.cc, Dan wrote about various sports, including football and boxing for the Daily Express, and covered the weird and wonderful world of non-league football for The Non-League Paper. Part of the generation inspired by the 2012 Olympics, Dan has been 'enjoying' life on two wheels ever since and spends his weekends making bonk-induced trips to the petrol stations of the south of England.

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TriTaxMan | 2 years ago
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It is my experience that Police Scotland will do nothing with any video evidence from a cyclist.  You can hand them evidence of multiple offences including motorists driving with no MOT and no VED and on the phone along with careless driving and the will NFA it.

So even if they eventually get their act together and make a video submission portal together, unless you have corroborating evidence from your local MP, your GP and at least 6 serving police officers for the traffic offence in any video submission you make it won't be taken seriously

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Benthic | 2 years ago
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I had one of these passes at the weekend.

Except the driver crossed a solid white line to do it.

Around a blind bend.

And it was a marked police patrol SUV.

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wtjs | 2 years ago
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The officer took an action to go and speak to the driver.  He emailed to say he had tried and failed to contact her and would try again. I’ve not heard from them again

It's just a standard dodge, but you haven't lost anything there since 'being spoken to'  is no deterrent as drivers are very well aware that the police don't have the organisation or will to 'notice' if a driver has been 'spoken to' previously and are desperate to avoid any significant action.

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martin replied to wtjs | 2 years ago
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Tink yourself lucky the police have the same approach with people that have been murdered.

 

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Safety | 2 years ago
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Regarding Police Scotland accepting video submission. In response to a written question the latest information I received from Scottish Government is that they are currently considering trialling a pilot scheme later this year. You couldn't make it up. It's like a skit from "Yes minister".

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chrisonabike replied to Safety | 2 years ago
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Thanks for asking!  If no-one does then it's "but there's no interest / we've had no complaints..."

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Safety | 2 years ago
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Response sounds like a well rehearsed fob off.

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lesterama | 2 years ago
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pathetic response from the police

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