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Near Miss of the Day 693: MGIF driver ignores oncoming vehicle for unholy overtake outside Ripon Cathedral
Today in our Near Miss of the Day series, we're in Ripon, North Yorkshire for a must get in front driver requiring forgiveness for pushing their way past, despite oncoming traffic outside the city's cathedral.
road.cc reader John told us all about this impatient encounter, which happened on Sunday 2 January as he climbed the hill next to Ripon Cathedral.
"I was cycling up the hill when I was overtaken by an idiot, even though (a) I was overtaking a parked car, (b) the road is not very wide and (c) there was an oncoming vehicle!"
"I reported this a week ago via NextBase but haven’t heard anything from them since. I’m not even sure if they passed this on to North Yorkshire Police."
> 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
Dan is the road.cc news editor and has spent the past four years writing stories and features, as well as (hopefully) keeping you entertained on the live blog. Having previously written about nearly every other sport under the sun for the Express, and the weird and wonderful world of non-league football for the Non-League Paper, Dan joined road.cc in 2020. Come the weekend you'll find him labouring up a hill, probably with a mouth full of jelly babies, or making a bonk-induced trip to a south of England petrol station... in search of more jelly babies.
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Surprised no one has sent the footage into Nick Freeman. After all it does show a gang of inconsiderate cyclists at the front not allowing cars to pass and cycling irreponsibly by holding up all the traffic.
Further investigation is required to find out whether they are white, middle-aged, male and/or overweight, and also whether they are making a purposeful journey from A to B or simply on a leisure ride. Should any of these prove to be the case, hopefully the authorities will use this video to ensure that they pay appropriate compensation to the driver for the delays and inconvenience they have caused.
You thread wrecking cyber bully......
BTW I'm going to make continous "jokes" because about you because you shouted a bad word when literally being cm's from being killed. I'm so funny that President Trump told me I'm so funny.
Is that like a particularly vindictive Dr Who villain, that's particularly hard on clothing?
Let's see how far they get with merino socks...
They're like gold dust, them...
"I reported this a week ago via NextBase(link is external) but haven’t heard anything from them since. I’m not even sure if they passed this on to North Yorkshire Police."
So NextBase is a company which makes dashcams and they will forward any camera footage to the relevant police force, via their (?) NDSP portal. But, you will not get any acknowledgement from either NextBase or the home force.
Has anyone had any success with this method of reporting?
Nextbase run the uploading pootals for lots of Police Forces al;though not surprising for wtjs / bikerphil, lancashire is not one of them.
https://www.nextbase.com/en-gb/national-dash-cam-safety-portal/
At least for WMP you fill out an online statement of the offence and the video footage. Again for WMP an email is sent out from the system to give a ref number for the footage uploaded. This is not the case number though. I thought it went into a black hole with WMP not contacting "witnesses" unless it need to go to court so I haven't heard anything at all, even for ones that severly dangered me or the one time someone physically tried to push me off my bike when the spate of them was happening in Brum in summer 2019. However I was contacted on one of my submissions this week because the statement page hadn't loaded for them and they asked for a resubmission. So at least I know the WMP do look at it, just don't know if they ever action it.
I know Inspector Kev of NYP did mention they were just started to use it so not sure if it is working properly if the OP didn't get the Submission Accepted Email.
Did you use this site to report?
https://www.northyorkshire.police.uk/ro/report/rti/rti-beta-2.1/report-a...
The first page looks similar to Gloucestershire where you get a reference at the end of the report and a confirming email. You can use this to ask for further information if you hear nothing. I used to email and ask them to confirm NFA after 6 weeks of submittng if I had heard nothing. Gloucestershire uses dropbox but NYP takes you to nextbase after you have entered the location so I don't know whether you get a reference at the end but it would be worth looking into next time if you just went direct to nextbase for this one.
By the way, pretty sure this would have been No Further Action in Gloucestershire.
That van shot through at over 40 mph. And for those bored with ancient cases, this YY69 KGA Audi A4 passed at 60 on the A586 Death Highway to Blackpool:
How often does this happen? Primitive driver brain only capable of 1 instruction "must get past cyclist" with no available capacity to think any further ahead. They slither past, create a hazard to themselves and other road users and then immediately just get in the way. Extremely annoying.
Pretty standard in Lancashire, which is not to diminish the alarming nature of such a hostile pass. Can any cyclists work out what's going to happen here, and what Lancashire Constabulary did about it?
Nothing, of course. This is Citroen Dispatch CA70 MKC
Looks like a farmer's vehicle.
'Get out of my way. I'm working / got a living to make' = par for the course.
Totally worth it. I just don't understand what people who do this type of thing are thinking, I'm assuming they aren't - get in car, disengage brain