Today’s near miss sees a white van driver endangering not just one, but two cyclists. As the driver moves to overtake, he instead drives alongside them on a narrow road, occasionally veering towards them to avoid oncoming traffic.
The footage was shot by Ed on Swanwick Lane near Southampton on the 5th of this month at around 8.40am.
In a van that nearly fills the lane, the driver makes several attempts to pass, but for the most part succeeds only in positioning himself either between the cyclists or alongside one or the other of them.
At one point the following cyclist, shot from Ed’s rear view camera, is unable pedal as he is so close to the kerb.
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.
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I believe the customer is none other than "Welsh 400m legend" Iwan Thomas too.
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