Near Miss of the Day 731: Overtaking driver almost hits cyclist head-on

The video that features in our Near Miss of the Day series today shows one of those heart-stopping moments that, as a cyclist, you have no control over and just have to hope for the best, as a driver on the wrong side of the road as they overtake another car at speed heads straight towards a rider in North London.

Fortunately, the motorist didn’t hit Danny, the road.cc reader who sent us the clip of the incident on Hornsey Road, close to Arsenal FC’s Emirates Stadium – but it was pretty damn close.

“The impatient driver decided that the fact that a cyclist was coming from the opposite direction did not prevent him from overtaking,” Danny said.

I wasn't able to read the vehicle registration number, so unfortunately no action made,” he added.

> 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