Near Miss of the Day 624: Drivers overtaking cyclist nearly hit oncoming rider

We have a slightly unusual one in our Near Miss of the Day series today – two motorists who give a cyclist a decent amount of space while overtaking, but in doing so come perilously close to hitting a rider coming from the other direction.

It was filmed near Muir of Ord, around 10 miles west of Inverness, by road.cc reader Kieran, who told us: “I reported this to the police after viewing the footage, the drivers were informed of their actions and apparently very apologetic, saying they 'did not see the second cyclist'.”

But he added: “Police are not interested in making a prosecution and ‘don't see what other avenues of enforcement we should pursue’.”

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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 [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.

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