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Near Miss of the Day 936: “Not sure it takes a forensic genius to work out this is close”… but police force refuses action because it is “following national guidance”

Police told the cyclist that they were 'following guidance' not to act on evidence, despite road.cc reporting that the guidance is baseless

Wed, Sep 17, 2025 16:13

Hit-and-run driver without licence who left cyclist with multiple injuries jailed for a year and disqualified from driving for four years

The cyclist suffered multiple fractures and other injuries, and died nine months after he was hit by the driver who already had six previous convictions for 16 offences

Fri, Apr 19, 2024 12:29

Near Miss of the Day 783: aggressive close pass driver offered speed awareness course ends up with £2,460 fine and 6 points after losing two appeals

Whether he meant it or not, this driver's attempts to get out of his original punishment for close passing followed by ranting aggressively at a cyclist arguably led to retribution truly befitting of the crime

Sun, Jun 12, 2022 13:30

Woman fined after pretending to be a doctor to treat injured cyclist

Joanne Graham falsely claimed to be “a trauma doctor” when she came across cyclist Martin Jones, who had fallen two feet down a ditch after crashing his e-bike

Sat, Mar 26, 2022 19:09

North Wales Police to hand out brightly-coloured gilets to “less visible” cyclists

Custom gilets feature the same 1.5m passing distance logo seen on new signs put up in Snowdonia

Sat, Aug 01, 2020 10:12

Statue of Justice, Old Bailey (licensed CC BY 2.0 on Flickr by Ronnie Macdonald).jpg

Suspended sentence for dog-walker who threatened to kill cyclist on seafront shared-use path

Llandudno Magistrates' Court hears of "unprovoked attack" in Deganwy last April

Sat, Nov 30, 2019 13:13

Near Miss of the Day 207: Cyclists swerve in slipstream as lorry load of timber passes

Our regular feature highlighting close passes caught on camera from around the country – today it’s North Wales

Fri, Nov 02, 2018 16:36

Police tape (CC licensed by freefotouk on Flickr)

Witness appeal after cyclist killed on Anglesey

Fatal crash happened at Trefor near Holyhead this morning

Tue, Apr 05, 2016 09:17

Mark Cavendish at 2015 Rise Above Sportive (taken from YouTube).jpg

Mark Cavendish Rise Above Sportive to return to Chester in August

Routes across Cheshire and North Wales will also feature a timed climb midway round

Tue, Feb 23, 2016 13:00

Police appeal to find car passenger who pushed teenage cyclist off bike

Police seek woman who came to cyclist's aid after cowardly car attack

Sun, Dec 13, 2015 13:52