Near Miss of the Day 760: “Idiot lorry driver” nearly takes out five cyclists

An “idiot lorry driver” almost knocked five cyclists from their bikes in our latest Near Miss of the Day video.

It was filmed at Devoran, Truro in Cornwall by road.cc reader Wayne, who told us:  “The lorry driver decided to overtake approaching road furniture then cuts in and is within 50 millimetres of the lead cyclist,” he told us.

“This has been reported to the police and the haulage company pending response, I am hoping that the driver is reprimanded because this is not to be tolerated.”

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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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