Near Miss of the Day 302: Super-close pass as driver swerves at last moment to avoid hitting cyclist

Today’s video in our Near Miss of the Day series shows a cyclist being subjected to a very close pass on the A38 in Bristol.

It was sent to us by Facebook user and road.cc reader Rock Almanac, who said: “Sent to the Dashcam Enforcement, but the video was corrupted on upload and didn't find out until it was too late to resubmit it again. So no action is being taken.

“When they overtook me, the pass felt really close, it wasn’t until viewing the backcam footage I realised just how close they came to hitting me, they appear to have veered slightly to the right at the last second.”

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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.