Today our regular feature highlighting close passes caught on camera comes from North Shields, where a motorist saw fit to carry out this overtaking manoeuvre on a roundabout.
The incident took place on Monday night.
The cyclist, Mark, said: “The driver didn't acknowledge me at all, even though I turned the air blue and managed to reach out and touch his car he was that close.”
He added: “Apologies for the language, I was understandably a bit perturbed by his proximity. Special mention to the white van driver for his text book over take afterwards.”
Mark hasn’t sent the footage to police on the basis that Northumbria Police called time on their close pass operation just weeks after its launch.
In the comments beneath our article on its closure, The Hoggs suggested that close pass footage could instead be submitted to Operation Dragoon, which focuses on dangerous driving.
> 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
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