Near Miss of the Day 317: Cyclist asks, “is it silly season again?” after two close passes

A road.cc reader is wondering “is it silly season again” after experiencing two very close passes on his past two rides, shown in the latest videos in our Near Miss of the Day series.

Jon, who submitted the footage, said: “We seem to go there periods of time when I don't get may bad passes then a spell where I get quite a few like now.”

The first one, shown above, happened in Preston going south over the River Ribble.  “The van driver did a close pass then pulled across me even more,” Jon said. “The driver though he had done no wrong. I've not reported it, as it takes so long to do in Lancashire.”

“The second one was when I was with a group ride with Chorley CC and had a poor pass when the driver just pulled right in front of me coming to a tight right hand corner.  Luckily I had a shout from my fellow riders that a van was overtaking in a bad place.

“I’ve not reported this one either, but I think I will email the company. I have had a bad pass there before,” Jon added (see below).

> 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.

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