Near Miss of the Day 668: Cyclist almost taken out by corner-cutting driver

A road.cc reader says that a video he filmed showing a motorist who cut a corner nearly hitting a cyclist should serve as a warning to drivers not to undertake such a dangerous manoeuvre.

Duncan, the road.cc reader who filmed the incident, said: “I captured this near miss while out and about today, great lesson in why not to cut a corner as you never know who will be coming the other way.

“It was just luck that the cyclist wasn’t a couple of seconds earlier,” he added.

> 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