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Near Miss of the Day 804: Club run on receiving end of two shocking overtakes
Keep today’s Near Miss handy for the next time a red-faced motorist scolds your group ride for cycling two abreast. In the above clip, a cycling club experienced two frighteningly similar overtakes on the same group ride – one while two abreast, the other while in the supposedly ‘safer’ single file formation.
The cyclists, members of the Wylde Green Wheelers cycling club, were first narrowly overtaken approaching a blind bend by a motorist – driving with a trailer attached to their car – who managed to pull in just before colliding with an oncoming bus.
The second near miss features a lorry driver deciding to overtake the riders as they enter a 30mph zone – and straight into the path of oncoming motorists too.
> 'Single file, the safest style' sign appears on Yorkshire road
The incidents took place during a WGW group ride around Great Haywood, Tixall & Brocton in Staffordshire on Friday 15 July.
“I’ve reported the first to the company,” says the road.cc reader who sent us the footage, though they told us that they are yet to receive a response.
“But as I’m not exactly sure where they took place I cannot refer them to the appropriate police force for action to be taken.”
> 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
Ryan joined road.cc as a news writer in December 2021. He has written about cycling and some ball-centric sports for various websites, newspapers, magazines and radio. Before returning to writing about cycling full-time, he completed a PhD in History and published a book and numerous academic articles on religion and politics in Victorian Britain and Ireland (though he remained committed to boring his university colleagues and students with endless cycling trivia). He can be found riding his bike very slowly through the Dromara Hills of Co. Down.
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One of my club mates was airlifted to Nottingham hospital with serious injuries after being hit by a vehicle on a club run. Major fractures, not sure of long term recovery
TBH those should be straight to the police and if the riding club can't work out the location in order to report it, the they are useless
yep, this is the first location... https://goo.gl/maps/WfhtGmmqq5SG9fKs5
As the person who recorded these, it was not on our normal roads but an 80 miler taking in a few steeper climbs than we get around our base north of Birmingham. I've never ridden these roads before so I'm sorry I didn't know where they were specifically. If I had they would have been reported.
If this happens in future then hit the lap button on your Garmin [other brands are available]. This'll leave a marker on the recording and you can pinpoint it on Strava or Garmin Connect.
Easily done on unfamiliar roads; bit late for this one but in future if anyone in your group is using Strava, just note the time into your ride of the incident then you can use the slider on the ride profile to find where on the map you were at that time, e.g. below from Friday, I can see that 38 minutes into the ride I was in the middle of Battersea Park (before any person of ill will, for I fear there are some, mocks the time/distance combination, I feel contrained to point out that time includes twenty minutes in the supermarket!).
Spoilsport! 😝
But that doesn't make any sense to me, even on unfamiliar roads you must have passed a road sign or landmark of some kind during the ride thats captured on the rest of the footage and could use Google earth maps to work it out ?
Maybe the rider doesn't want to report it?
They don't *have* to ... although it would be nice if they did; but not everyone wants the hassles that can come with reporting it.
Although I believe sevenfold has reported before. Would be Staffordshire police covering there and they don't seem to have easy reporting methods like WMP do.
Yes that's correct. Staffordshire Police don't use the Nextbase portal unlike WM & Warwickshire Police. Some useful tips on here regarding Strava so will note for the future. Every day's a school day as they say.
Which is totally fair enough, I barely report close passes thesedays because its too much hassle for little impact. But Id not shy away from stating that was my choice with any video I shared.