Near Miss of the Day 327: Reckless driver on roundabout

Today’s video in our Near Miss of the Day series was filmed by a road.cc reader not while he was riding his bike, but driving his car – we think you’ll agree though that it provides a shocking example of poor driving.

The footage was shot by road.cc reader Alistair on his vehicle’s dashcam at Corrs Corners, Newtownabbey.

He told us: “The driver intimidates the cyclist on the roundabout – the white car is nearly on 3 wheels on the roundabout and has to brake hard for the cyclist and somehow that is the cyclist fault!”

Alistair continued: “Terrible driving and then a beep at the cyclist like he was the issue! It really annoyed me.

“Unfortunately I was in a rush that morning otherwise I would have stopped the cyclist and offered him the footage to report.

“I've no idea what the Police Service of Northern Ireland are like with this sort of thing.”

In fact, we’ve seen some positive initiatives from the force in recent years – including recently bringing about the successful prosecution for dangerous driving of a driver who had made a close pass on a group of club drivers then threatened them, and who lost an appeal against his conviction.

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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.