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Near Miss of the Day 202: Driver pulls out without slowing down (warning - explicit language)
Today's video in our Near Miss of the Day series shows the importance when riding of anticipating what a motorist is going to do - and assuming the worst.
It was filmed on Lostock Road at Davyhulme Circle in Urmston, Greater Manchester, by road.cc reader James.
"I'm getting too many clips of late but only send the ones people can learn from," he told us.
"I saw the vehicle in my peripheral vision and I didn't trust it was going to stop so I slowed down and looked, it didn't stop.
"It felt a lot closer than the video looks, assume its the angle of the camera," he added. "Sorry for language, it really shook me up."
> 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
Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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Woah that looked really close. Thankfully you anticipated very eary.
It looks like Renault Espace mark 4, possibly a Taxi? One that does airport runs?
Well spotted. The black car was basically behind the silver car all the way.
Putting two and two together, that suggests the car driver also never saw the cyclist, hence their just pulling out onto the road. That further suggests they weren’t arsed for looking, otherwise they’d have slowed down and actually waited at the give way line, or at least slowed down ahead of it to get a clear view of the road they were joining.
And yeah, report that.
Sun was in the driver's eyes.
Had a similar one a couple of years ago. Driver of another car asked me if I was ok and said the offending driver had cut them up at the previous roundabout.
based on that driving the newspaper I expect...no matter how many times I watch that, I cant predict the car arriving like that at that junction, some serious sixth sense riding there to avoid it
wow, well done for the cyclist anticipating that, serious injury or death if they hadn't.
Shocking. Also with no hi-viz on that car and painted entirely black (with tinted windows) it was almost invisible.
Has this been reported ?
I saw a comment on twitter the other day that said on their Driving Course - about 50% of the drivers had been sent on it through footage from cyclists. So it's working. Slowly but surely.
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