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Near Miss of the Day 203: Cyclist brakes as driver turns right across his path
The latest video in our Near Miss of the Day series shows a cyclist having to brake as a motorist turned right across his path at a box junction in south London.
The footage was submitted by road.cc reader David, who was riding down Red Post Hill in north Dulwich and continuing straight on through the junction and into Dulwich Village.
As he approached the junction, the driver of a silver car at the head of a queue of traffic coming from the Dulwich Village direction turns right into East Dulwich Grove.
Despite the approach of the cyclist, a motorist in a blue car behind also turns right, and it was only the rider’s quick reactions that prevented a collision.
David told us: “Always thankful I've got a bike with discs. The driver appears totally unfazed by almost having me over her bonnet.”
Box junctions are governed by rule 174 of the Highway Code, which makes clear that in this case the cyclist, who was proceeding straight on through the junction, had right of way.
The rule says: “You MUST NOT enter the box until your exit road or lane is clear.
“However, you may enter the box and wait when you want to turn right, and are only stopped from doing so by oncoming traffic, or by other vehicles waiting to turn right.”
> 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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Radar tells me their closing speed, if they are slowing and how far away. Then I decide to say a prayer. The change of light pattern is incidental.
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Seems sensible comments don't get approved by the hierachy, so much for democracy.
I hear you!
I posted a squirrel pic the other day and it hardly got any likes at all. Thanks a lot, Theresa May!
If it makes you feel better I have a squirrel anecdote for you.
Was watching QI last night: apparently the majority of squirrels really hate chilli peppers but birds can't taste chilli at all, so if you want to discourage squirrels from your bird feeders you should mix chillis in.
(However, a very tiny minority of squirrels are really really mad for chilli and it encourages them, so go figure...).
And not a lot of people know that...
I saw that same episode! I already knew about chillis using capsaicin to deter mammals from eating them (birds will spread the seeds much further), but I didn't know about the squirrel-chilli-heads.
My mother-in-law's previous dog used to semi-tolerate chillis - he'd happily wolf down any left over curry whilst slightly yelping from the heat.
The pass at the end there wasn't exactly great, assuming from someone who just saw the 10 seconds prior to that
Turning across someone’s path is more apparently wrong to people than close passing. People think that if they didn’t hit you then they’ve wasted valuable le inches of road space.
I'm also wondering why none of the usual suspects has pointed out that it was the cyclist's fault for not riding in the cycle lane.
Standard behaviour: I'll just follow the vehicle in front of me through, without checking for myself. You see it a great deal in the overtaking of stationary vehicles.
whats with the hand signals the guy in the white van is doing ?
Macarena?
Roughly this.
"I don't care if you nearly ended up on the bonnet and might need a microsecond to process that experience - Move! The lights are about to change and you're holding me up...."
The spinning discs of death
This would be the same place where they are handing out lights to cyclists. But if they can't see you in broad daylight, just what difference will the lights make exactly? Or perhaps the lights will make them care a bit more about whether they kill or injure a fellow human being.
What we need are squads of plain clothes police riding bikes, and a law which says that drivers have their vehicle instantly impounded for seven days for such clear violations of the law that endanger other people. My guess is that would reduce motor vehicles by about 30% in the first week.
Where can I vote for that?
I wonder if any of the political parties would sign up to it?