A driver almost hitting a cyclist on a roundabout in Newbury features in today’s video in our Near Miss of the Day series – but the registered keeper of the vehicle received nothing more than a warning letter from Thames Valley Police.
It’s impossible to tell whether the driver simply did not see the cyclist, possibly through distraction, or whether they did spot the rider and decided to plough through the roundabout regardless – we suspect the latter, and it’s a gamble that clearly could had had horrific consequences.
As for the decision taken by the police to only send a warning letter, Andy, the road.cc reader who filmed the clip, said that to him it “sums up why roads are so dangerous, inattention is just accepted.”
> 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
British Cycling are far more concerned about the culture wars than cycling. Well past their sell-by date.
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Before the internet they wrote letters to local newspapers (RIP), I understand that green ink was compulsory.
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Slow news day?
It's more DuckDuckGo-fu (which is probably closer to being Bing-fu)
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