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Near Miss of the Day 615: Driver cuts up cyclist ... to park on segregated cycle lane
Our story on the live blog yesterday about a film crew parking their vehicles in the cycle lane in London’s Hyde Park has prompted a road.cc reader to share an incident that happened to him a couple of months ago when a driver cut across him to park up on a segregated cycleway in Waltham Forest, one of the capital’s Mini Holland boroughs.
Tony, the cyclist who filmed the clip, told us: “I was out for an early ride one Sunday morning, using a segregated cycle lane along Forest Road, Walthamstow when a driver who had pulled out of a side road shortly before, decides the cycle lane is where they're going to park.
“He was completely oblivious to the fact that I was there in the cycle lane, but then they kept signalling that I should move on so they could park there.
“Having nowhere else to really be that morning I simply waited them out until they moved off.”
He added: “I reported them to the Metropolitan Police who issued a Notice of Intended Prosecution, unfortunately unless it goes to court, that is all I will ever know about the outcome.”
> 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
Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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double yellow lines, so parking only ok if all 4 wheels are off the road. Lucky for him the cycle lane was segregated, or the yellow lines would have been in the cycle lane leaving nowhere to park.
*parking in segregated cycle lanes never OK.
** double yellow lines apply to the full width of the public highway including the pavement, despite what some drivers may think.
Also single dash on the kerb stones for No loading or unloading at the times shown
Yes, parking restrictions apply to the road they're on. And 'road' doesn't mean 'carriageway'. The road extends to the edge of the highway, which is usually* the boundary of private property (and may go beyond the displayed goods/dining areas of the adjacent shops, if they are using the highway eg under permit). The yellow lines therefore apply to the cycle lane and the footway.
* usually, but not always. Ownership of land doesn't necessarily mean the land is not regarded as part of the road, and I am aware of parking penalties issued for parking adjacent to double yellows on land that is privately owned alongside the general carriageway.
Moves away from parking on cycle lane, turns corner, parks on double yellow lines. About right.
Didn't even put the emergency flashers on.
...and within 10m of a junction.
The owner of the vehicle would also do well to pay for their VED. No doubt they're someone that has a whinge about cyclists not paying 'road tax' but then happily avoid paying what they are actually legally obliged to do.
The amount of posts I've seen on social media this week from disgruntled motorists complaining that the cycle lanes are never used! I'm already on my 3rd pair of GP5000's this year because of glass being scattered in them.
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