Near Miss of the Day 33: Close-passing drivers don't just put cyclists at risk

As a cycling website, our Near Miss of the Day feature obviously focuses on the danger to which some motorists expose people on bikes.

But often, we see that poor driving doesn't discriminate against different classses of road users - a driver who is happy to pass a cyclist far too closely instead of hanging back will often come close to colliding with oncoming motor vehicles.

That's exactly what happens in this pair of videos filmed last week by road.cc reader Lee Brady on Hayclose Lane near Kendal, Cumbria,

The first,  above, involved a Ford Ka while the second, below. involved a coach from Cumbria-based operator, Reays; both took place near the Station Inn Pub, Oxenholme.

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.