Near Miss of the Day 703: Very close pass at pinch point (video includes swearing)

One of the most typical near misses we see in this series involves a driver overtaking a cyclist at a pinch point where the road narrows – and today’s offering from near Wrexham, north Wales, could not provide a bigger contrast to the one we featured yesterday.

Both involve lorries and traffic islands but while in the video we featured yesterday, the driver went the wrong way around the island – which is of course illegal, but at least did not put the cyclist in danger – today we have a driver ploughing ahead regardless.

The result is a very close pass on the cyclist, who responds with some industrial language – perfectly understandable in the circumstances.

Phil, the road.cc reader who sent the clip in, said: “I actually felt the air displacement as the door mirror passed my head/helmet.”

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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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