Near Miss of the Day 398: Close pass for charity worker on way to work to deliver e-bikes for NHS staff

There may be much less traffic than usual on the roads at the moment, but that isn't stopping cyclists from being on the receiving end of close passes. And while the mainstream media is focusing on leisure cyclists taking their outdoor exercise during lockdown, many people riding bikes at the moment are doing so to get to and from essential work.

Those elements come together in the latest video in our Near Miss of the Day series, shot near Stirling in Scotland by road.cc reader Mairi.

She received a close pass from a driver on Friday morning as she was riding to the charity where she works - and where she would be delivering e-bikes to NHS workers to help with their commutes.

She said: "I work for an environmental charity, today I was going to work to deliver ebikes to NHS staff. The roads were empty, so uncalled for, there was no congestion? Wonder what goes through people's minds?"

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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.

> What to do if you capture a near miss or close pass (or worse) on camera while cycling