Near Miss of the Day 834: Punishment pass on cyclist lands driver in court

Today's Near Miss of the Day submission comes from across the Irish Sea and landed the motorist a €300 fine and a day in court for careless driving.

Righttobikeit recalls the van driver had been using his horn to try to pressure the driver of the black car, which waited for an appropriate gap in oncoming traffic, to pass before pushing through "aggressively" even with oncoming traffic.

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Moments later when confronted the driver denied ever being on the road, a defence which did not stand up in court...

Court today. Careless driving & €300 fine. He’d been blowing his horn pressuring the patient driver in black car to overtake. Black car took advantage of break in oncoming traffic. He pushed through after aggressively with oncoming. 5 mins later denied he was even on that road pic.twitter.com/9aQosY7vqc

— Righttobikeit❤️Ukraine (@righttobikeit) November 9, 2022

"Mitigating, his solicitor tried to suggest that I was an experienced cyclist and shouldn't be on that road during rush hour. Judge had none of it," Righttobikeit explained.

No. He was suggesting that being experienced I should have known to stay off that road. In so many words

— Righttobikeit❤️Ukraine (@righttobikeit) November 9, 2022

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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.

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> What to do if you capture a near miss or close pass (or worse) on camera while cycling