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Near Miss of the Day 649: Driver makes close pass on cyclist – then gets out of car to confront rider
Our story yesterday about a driver in Liverpool kicking a cyclist after making a close pass on the rider got plenty of attention, and today in our Near Miss of the Day series we have a similarly aggressive motorist.
Luckily in this incident, the cyclist who had shouted at the driver who had just made a very close pass on him was able to take evasive action when the motorist stopped a little further up the road.
Getting out of his car, the driver – who has an object in his right hand – appeared to be set on confronting the rider, who anticipated what seemed about to happen and was able to get out of harm’s way.
The incident happened on Alexander Parade, Denniestoun in the east end of Glasgow.
The road.cc reader who filmed it at around 8.30am on Monday morning told us: “ I thought the guy was going to attack me … I had to swerve to avoid him.”
> 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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Well, I came here this morning to find the solution to World Peace.
Disappointed.
Everybody stops fighting.
You're welcome.
A SERMON ON ETHICS AND LOVE
One day Mal-2 asked the messenger spirit Saint Gulik to approach the Goddess and request Her presence for some desperate advice. Shortly afterwards the radio came on by itself, and an ethereal female Voice said
YES?
"O! Eris! Blessed Mother of Man! Queen of Chaos! Daughter of Discord! Concubine of Confusion! O! Exquisite Lady, I beseech You to lift a heavy burden from my heart!"
WHAT BOTHERS YOU, MAL? YOU DON'T SOUND WELL.
"I am filled with fear and tormented with terrible visions of pain. Everywhere people are hurting one another, the planet is rampant with injustices, whole societies plunder groups of their own people, mothers imprison sons, children perish while brothers war. O, woe."
WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH THAT, IF IT IS WHAT YOU WANT TO DO?
"But nobody Wants it! Everybody hates it."
OH. WELL, THEN STOP.
Are you a pope?
Maybe a lapsed pope
Can someone advise on the ideology of the cyclist and the motorist.
I believe that this will assist in understanding the near miss and allow both parties to come to a reconciliation.
Meanwhile, in the forum...
Post of the day!
This is what happens when people try to engage with those that are just aiming to disrupt and politicise all the discussions in a divisive manner.
Don't be fooled!
Ha! I thought so....
Have you been watching The Outlaws?
I found it unrealistic - free flowing traffic and no sign of a bicycle !
I've seen the first two episodes but was mainly playing "spot the place".
Mrs Hawkinspeter and I often play a stupid game when watching TV: when a new location appears, one of us will occasionally declare "I used to live there"; "I washed dishes there as a summer job"; "went on holiday there" along with some arbitrary made up facts about the location. It works best with entirely fictional locations, preferably in alternate universes. We used a lot of "been there" calls when watching the first episode.
"Free flowing traffic" - that lorry flowed easily enough into the docks.
Ridiculous and entitled motorist decides his ever so important journey wasn't as urgent as he had considered it to be moments before and that their brakes do actually still function.
reminds me of the time I watched a driver pull out at a mini roundabout, into the flow of traffic such there was a 1m gap between his car and the cars either side.
When the following driver beeped, he suddenly had time to get out and make a scene about it.
Perhaps it's drivers and not cyclists causing the problems.
I have one of these going through the Lancashire Constabulary 'trying to avoid doing anything about it' process at the moment. Standard BMW crazed psycho driver with a close pass at about 30 mph, caught up at roadworks. No swearing from me, but he threatened to "fucking flatten" me and "you WILL get knocked off"- all on video. Reported online and by 101 (because of the LC dodge where they don't look at online reports until after the 2 week deadline). That was 7th August- one PC kept promising me the opportunity to make a formal statement, which was never actually offered. At my final reminder, I received an automated reply saying she was not on operational duties. It eventually ended up with another PC who starts again at the beginning. Then he's on seemingly permanent days off, can't get the video to work etc. There's supposed to be some action at the weekend, but I have enough experience of LC to know they have many more do-nothing tricks ready to roll out
Alexandra Parade, Dennistoun.
Looks like a puffed-up coke head. Gun or knife wrapped in a plastic bag? Hopefully this has been reported and the police will put an ANPR stop on the vehicle.
yes you are victim blaming.
It's perfectly reason to exclaim your displeasure - it's no different to cars sounding their horn except use of the horn may be illegal in some circumstances whereas shouting wouldn't be.
Someone on here once suggested that I 'smile and wave'. So I went through a phase of doing just that. At least two drivers got very irate and I thought they were going to confront me.
I once, out of habit, did it on a group ride. One of my mates asked me if I knew the driver. I said I didn't recognise him but assumed that only someone I knew well would invade my personal space like that 😊
Possibly for the first time ever, I entirely agree with you. In just the last week or so on here you have demonstrated that you are a fat-shaming racist bully, something you do from the comfort of your keyboard (hiding behind an anonymous username, of course); decent people tend to regard that as somewhat more heinous than swearing at someone, in the heat of the moment, who has just risked their life through their selfishness and/or stupidity.
Wow, stalking me Nige? Crikey, a comment from a year ago as well, how obsessive is that, do you keep files on me? Fair enough, you can do that when people are honest enough to use their own names rather than hiding behind pseudonyms. In the instance you have found, I was talking about those foul individuals who spill their disgusting bile in cold blood on t'internet (I trust you recognise yourself), not somebody who swears in the heat of the moment at someone who's just almost killed them by skimming them by two inches at 50mph.
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Nigel posted on this thread for only one reason, a distraction from the obviously unacceptable behaviour of a motorist.
He is not worth a response.
'Stop your obsessive bile', says the man who regularly spouts obsessive bile.
There's a logic there, somewhere, I'm sure, but I'm jiggered if I can find it.
Evidence of that please, Tory boy? I don't mean evidence of me disagreeing with cycle-hating car worshippers, or fat-shaming, or casual racism, as per our Nige, but an actual example that could be claimed as obsessive bile.
Good quote, isn't it - obviously to a Tory, the party that tried tooth and nail to stop the foundation of the NHS, a quote from its founder will always be hard to take.
There is a substantive difference between despising a political party and its affiliates who stand for greed, selfishness and division and whose policies and incompetence over the last decade have caused many thousands of needless deaths and poverty and suffering for millions and hating people, as you do, Nigel, because they ride bicycles, or because they are overweight, or because of the colour of their skin.
Nigel, you keep trotting out the same old rhetoric that somehow the reaction of the cyclist is to blame for this incident not the close pass. Go figure.
I've asked this question of you a couple of times when you have rolled out the "the cyclist shouldn't have reacted" speech and you conveniently ignore me.
So Nigel I will ask it again. Have you never reacted to ANY form of sudden shock that you have had in your life?
I know that you will either ignore it again or you will make up some excuse that you have never reacted to anything in your life.
So lets see if I understand you. When a cyclist reacts to a sudden shock you infer that this instincive response an angry response. So holding you to your own standards you must be angry when you respond to a sudden shock?
If the rider had continued on shouting at the driver in question then I would have agreed with you but they did not. In fact their own actions showed that they were not looking for conflict. If they were angry, as you hypothesise, surely they would have not shied away from the conflict that they created.
But feel free to keep trying to put your own little spin on things as if you automatically hold the moral high ground because you have "learned to control your emotions better."
On a point of order, Nye did not describe Tories as vermin. He described them as "lower than vermin."
Well done for the introduction of Godwin's law, of course the dedicated socialist who established the National Health Service was a Nazi, that makes perfect sense. Getting a bit desperate there.
If you were not a fat-shaming racist bully, who actually thinks it's funny to mock other people's physical appearance and to try to establish links between their racial characteristics and their political beliefs, I most certainly would apologise for calling you one, but as you are I fail to see any requirement to do so.
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