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Near Miss of the Day 541: DPD driver undertakes and then immediately turns right
It’s pretty easy to imagine what was going through the mind of the DPD driver seen in this clip. They felt like they could get past the cyclist before turning right… so they went past the cyclist before turning right – never mind the fact they had to pass on the inside and also cut across the cyclist’s path to do this.
The incident occurred at a busy junction on Dudley Road East, Tipton on January 15.
It’s the kind of junction that isn’t much fun to deal with on a bike at the best of times, but Martin said the driver almost hit him while carrying out the manoeuvre.
The driver has been reported to West Midlands Police, but Martin hasn’t heard back. He says he’s made around 20 submissions over the course of six months and not heard anything about any of them.
The incident was also reported to DPD.
“They didn't reply,” said Martin.
> 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
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I didn't think it was that bad but only on the basis that had he being going straight on, he would have been about the same distance from the cyclist. Would have been better to have waited 2 seconds longer though.
I had somethign similar and when I got home started the reporting process but when reviewing the footage, although it was an undertake, they waited until the stop lines to pull over so I felt reporting it would be a waste of time.
Pretty sure now it depends who gets your case as to whether something happens, at least for Essex police.
Bad driving, but not frightening.
DPD notorious for ignoring complaints, have had two NIPs sent when I explicitly said to them (and sent them the video) if you have a word with your driver and tell me you have I won't send to the police - ignored. Clearly a great employer, they won't be paying the fines or taking the points so why save their drivers from getting them?
They may well just not provide the drivers name. Police often won't follow that up at all, let alone with a large company
That is all of the delivery drivers now, not just them. Too many are on gig economy type deliveries so the faster they get done, the more they get paid and no penalties.
Not my company. I used to train the drivers. We're very clear that if you're going to be late, pull over and phone ahead, then take it easy.
That's not to say the drivers always do. There is an ingrained mind set in some folk that "I'm never late".
One of the biggest incentives for rushing though is"job and knock". Sadly my company does have this policy. In spite of a healthy OT rate, drivers return 1 hour ahead of schedule on average. IMO this should be not allowed for safety critical roles.
I don't believe driving like this gets you there any faster. In my experience journey times depend on traffic and traffic lights. Driving more dangerously doesn't get you there quicker but it does increase brake wear, tyre wear road wear and fuel consumption. Plus, of couse, it puts us all at greater risk.
It is the fallacy of driving like an idiot and thinking you will get to your destination faster, the only thing they ever to faster is the next convoy, queue of other stationary vehicles or traffic lights.
All it does is increase their levels of frustration and anger and endangers everyone around them.
I think there's also a common misconception that driving fast and/or aggressively is a measure of driving skill.
Didn't Top Gear do one of their 'experiments' once when they had to drive to Scotland or something? One in the slow lane, one in the slow and middle lane and one in slow, middle and 'fast' lane. And they all arrived pretty much at the same time.
Without wishing to sound like a pendant there is no such thing as a slow lane and fast lane on a motorway. There are two overtaking lanes. Unfortunately there are too many people who drive as if the scenario in the post is the case causing congestion and forcing people who drive correctly to have to frequently crossover two lanes of moving traffic to overtake.
Ignoring any communication is the new black…
If he'd started the undertake one or two seconds earlier you could let him have that one.
But he didn't.
So he's a c*nt.