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Near Miss of the Day 680: Dangerous overtake into oncoming traffic
We’re back on the same stretch of road in Buckinghamshire for the second time in a week in our Near Miss of the Day series today, this time featuring a driver performing a dangerous overtake on a pair of cyclists, passing the second of them just as another motorist is coming from the opposite direction.
The solid white lines on what is a winding road change from one side to another, highlighting that the prospect of drivers being tempted to make unsafe overtaking manoeuvres here is something of which the relevant highways authority – but that still doesn’t stop some motorists from taking their chances.
The road.cc reader who shot the footage on Winslow Road, south west of Milton Keynes, told us that he had received no response from Thames Valley Police.
“The road is very bumpy and there is a harsh set of potholes near the end of the video,” he said.
“You have to use the whole lane to get through to the other side safely.
“I’m not sure why one would need to overtake a cyclists at this speed on such a dangerous and blind set of corners,” 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
Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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I guess at times we forget that this sort of driving behaviour isn't targeted at cyclists, many drivers are that bad without the target fixation of a cycle ahead.
Wednesday I had to do a full emergency stop in my car just to avoid a pickup truck out of control on the wrong side of the road on a residential road.
My highlight was some years ago when I turned left at a sharp turning, 150 degrees turn with island in the middle of the junction, to be faced with a car fully on my side of the road with the driver holding a phone in one hand and a coffee in the other, straight-lining the corner. Shocked, he came to a halt with his window down and I bellowed that he should put his f'ing phone down, his f'ing coffee down and steer his f'ing car. His silent flapping mouthed response suggested to me that he was cross-bred with a goldfish but had unfortunately got the brains as well.
"he had received no response from Thames Valley Police."
My recommendation is to use the submission form to chase them again on Day 7 or so. Just ask them politely for an update.
Two illegal overtakes!
The nissan reg DV64ESU is overtaking on double white lines, and the cyclists were doing 28mph!
The driver of puegot reg YN13OCA should be banned from driving.
I dunno, I blame the cyclists here - they were in single file meaning it took longer for the Peugeot to overtake them both. Had they been two-abreast it could have completed the manoeuvre earlier, before the solid lines switched sides.
Yeah, I know... kidding ya, but even so.
at this point here, the driver can see the car coming the other way and should probably move into the gap between the cyclists. It's just about long enough.
Quite possibly the driver can't see the car ahead at this point, the driver's position is near the far side of the carriageway, the view is possibly obstructed by the embankment. Which is why the arrows have thoughtfully been painted right there in front - someone else already did the thinking-ahead required.
To get in front. It's an imperative.
Dangerous overtake into oncoming traffic - that would be the 'oncoming traffic' that had to come nearly to a stop to avoid a head on collision?