Near Miss of the Day 761: “That’s really close – I could have touched that!” says cyclist after close pass

“That’s really close – I could have touched that!” was the reaction of a cyclist who was subjected to a very close overtake last week in Norwich. However, police only issued the driver with a warning letter, and the rider is now calling on other cyclists to share with him their experience of submitting footage to the force.

The link to the video on YouTube was sent to us by road.cc reader ThatGuyOnTheBike, who said: “I was amazed how close they got and where they chose to pass me.

“I'm a regular submitter to Norfolk and Suffolk Operation Snap who can be pretty good. On this occasion though, they decided that a warning letter would suffice.”

He added: “I'd also like to hear how others have found our local Operation Snap //thatguyonthebikeagain [at] gmail.com" target="_blank">via this email.”

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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.

> What to do if you capture a near miss or close pass (or worse) on camera while cycling