Near Miss of the Day 522: Land Rover driver in pointless close pass

Today's video in our Near Miss of the Day series shows what the cyclist who filmed it described as a Land Rover driver "passing pointlessly close" - and from the footage, it's impossible to disagree.

Shot in the village of Congresbury, North Somerset by road.cc reader Nick, there's no oncoming traffic, road furniture or parked cars to contend with, but nonetheless the motorist overtakes the cyclist with just inches to spare.

It's perhaps not the worst example of driving we've featured over the years, but it is the kind of overtake that any regular cyclist will be all too familiar with, and underlines just why close pass campaigns from police forces across the country, emphasising to motorists how much space they should leave, are so necessary.

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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