Near Miss of the Day 405: Oncoming cyclist on wrong side of road

Here's something a bit different in our Near Miss of the Day series - a video of one that doesn't feature a motorist, but rather another cyclist, who happens to be on the wrong side of the road.

It happened in Cheshire this morning as road.cc reader Bob was riding at Dunham Massey, near Altrincham.

He told us that he encountered "A cyclist coming in the opposite direction on the other side of the road as I cycled into the sun.

"He had a face mask on, I wondered if it was covering his eyes," Bob added.

As you can see from the video, despite the sun being in his eyes (something we have often seen used in their defence by motorists on trial for killing cyclists), Bob spotted the oncoming rider and managed to avoid a collision.

> 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