Near Miss of the Day 486: Lorry driver cuts across cyclist at roadworks in "terrifying" overtake

This is a terrifying addition to our Near Miss of the Day Series with a lorry driver overtaking a cyclist at the point where the road narrows from two lanes to one due to roadworks.

Gary, the road.cc reader who filmed the heart-stopping footage, told us: "This happened leaving Liverpool City centre back in May.

"Due to roadworks the road was down to a single lane. The HGV driver decided that the single coned off lane was wide enough for both me and and him. It wasn't.

"I uploaded the footage to Merseyside Police, who this week informed me that the company that owned the vehicle had been fined £1000 plus court costs.

"I've had several near misses, but this was far and away the most frightening."

> 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