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Near Miss of the Day 245: Moped rider almost hits cyclist head-on

Our regular series featuring close passes from around the ocuntry - today it's Hampshire...

If you cycle regularly in urban areas, you can’t fail to have noticed the rise in the number of people on scooters – something driven mainly by the gig economy, especially food delivery businesses.

Many people riding them will have bought the scooter second-hand just for that purpose and, slapping an L-plate on the back, are pretty much good to go … driving standards can be sketchy, to say the least.

There’s no way of knowing whether the moped rider in Southampton shown in today’s video in our Near Miss of the Day series was delivering food, but what is clear is that the standard of driving is shocking as the cyclist, road.cc reader Matt, almost gets hit head-on.

> 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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Hirsute | 5 years ago
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Plenty of close passes by the drivers coming the other way.

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jthef | 5 years ago
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That is a bad one. shame no rear video with a numberplate on it.

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brooksby | 5 years ago
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OK, yeah, that was a pretty appalling piece of "Ah well, its only a cyclist..." (assuming the mopedist even looked that far ahead ).

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alansmurphy | 5 years ago
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I thought the Irish border was all being sorted with Brexit Deal 72, no need for the oCuntry!

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