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Near Miss of the Day 724: Driver cuts up cyclist on mini-roundabout
The latest video in our Near Miss of the Day series again shows a motorist driving onto a roundabout when a cyclist is already on it, this one happening in Gwent in south Wales.
“I had entered the mini roundabout coming from Aberbargoed direction heading towards Markham when the driver cut out from the roundabout to my left,” said Wayne, the road.cc reader who submitted the clip.
“She did glance in my direction but it is unclear if she saw me,” he continued.
“I had to apply my brakes on the roundabout. I had florescent orange top and helmet on so I should have been very visible.”
> 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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This should give an indication of how seriously the police are going to take the 'new' HC rules about cyclist and pedestrian precedence on the road- which is 'not in the slightest'.
Very slow cycling pace...
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And your constructive point is?
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Would have done that to any vehicle, clearly had no intention of stopping.
Of Course she saw you, she just didn't give a crap about you
Happened to me dozens of times (including one at a roundabout a couple of summers ago when a Kia Sportage "collided" with me leaving me with busted ribs and a written off bike) - given up reporting the footage of near misses to the rozzers, Surrey Police never take any action unless you've actually been hit it seems.
I wonder why so many drivers act with impunity in circumstances like this......?
I swear people lose their minds at mini roundabouts. I used to think it was a mentality of 'give way to the right unless it's some fucker on a bike' but motorists are almost equally terrible to other motorists, more so than other types of junctions. I don't get it.
Saw you, but didn't look long enough to see how fast you were going.
Looks right, oh it's only a bike, thinks: cars are faster than bikes so it must be my right of way.
A round of applause too for the truly abject cycling gutter up the side of the chicane.
Go carefully - a fatbike could get wedged there. Actually, on typing that maybe it's "Dutch infra" and for side-by side cycling? "We took the average tyre width and two will easily fit..."
Despite appearances to the contrary, and the excrutiatingly poor standard of British cycle facilities, that isn't a cycle lane; it's for drainage.
Good job too, looks like that burst pipe has not been fixed for at least 9 months!
That's not a burst pipe - just a regular stop-off for Clifford.
The build-out definitely should have a cycle bypass - you may be right that that's an attempt at one.
Agree. However in my experience there will always be a car parked on one or both sides making it ornamental. Unless there are double yellows, "no loading" flashes on the kerb, a traffic warden and a high court judge in attendence. (No police officer because they don't deal with such matters by policy).
I don't like those bypasses for those reasons, as well as that they are never swept of leaves and other crap, and they spit you back out with the cars as they are veering back into top to get out of the way of a Car they should have stopped for but didn't.