Near Miss of the Day 747: Moped rider aims kick at cyclist (video contains swearing)

Today’s near miss is a bit of an unusual one, coming as it does courtesy of a reckless road user on two wheels rather than four.

Last Friday evening a road.cc reader was riding on the coast road towards Brighton when a passing moped rider – L plate prominently attached to the back of their bike – aimed a kick in their direction.

And that wasn’t even the extent of the rider’s bizarre and dangerous behaviour.

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“The driver was driving erratically and even drove onto the pavement at one point,” they told us.

“I sent the video to Sussex Police and all they did was send a letter to the registered owner. This guy is going to kill someone and Sussex Police do not care.”

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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.

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