Updated: Near Miss of the Day 293 - why wait when you’re driving the bigger vehicle?

This near miss featured one oncoming driver turning across a cyclist’s path… and then a second driver following.

James has only recently purchased a camera, “as I fairly regularly encounter drivers with questionable judgement on my 11 mile commute through Bristol.”

Most of James’s commute is on the Concorde Way cycle path from the city centre to north Bristol with only around 15 minutes on the road in his 40-minute ride.

“Unfortunately, this seems to be enough to see some truly awful rush hour driving where drivers are fighting for every metre in order to get to the next standstill traffic jam; putting pedestrians and cyclists at risk in the process.”

This particular incident occurred on August 1 – only the second day James had used the camera.

He said the driver of the silver car paused before cutting the corner. “Following the silver car was a lady in the brown C-Max, who definitely saw me, was looking me right in the eye, but decided to put her foot down and cut right in front of me at speed and into the oncoming traffic of the side-road.

“You can't really hear anything with this camera but I skidded and lost enough speed to miss the side of her car.”

It looks close, but James also reckons the super wide angle lens makes objects appear much further away that they were in reality.

The footage was submitted to Avon and Somerset Police, who have responded:

"On viewing the footage I agree that the standard of driving falls below the required standard and I shall be seeking to prosecute the driver of the vehicle.

"Thank you for taking the time to upload your footage and helping to keep our roads safe."

> 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

> What to do next if you’ve been involved in a road traffic collision