Today's Near Miss of the Day sounds like the start of a bad joke... a
driver, a trucker, a farmer and a cyclist roll through the Welsh countryside...
No punchline, I'm afraid, just a near miss on two fronts — a close pass
on a cyclist, and a motorist lucky to avoid a head-on collision with an HGV.
This footage was sent in from Wales, our reader telling us it resulted in
the driver accepting a fine, plus penalty points on their licence, before
the case was due in court.
It was reported to Operation SNAP after the cyclist recorded the incident
on the B4302 in Carmarthenshire last September.
"At the particular section of road the incident happened, it is well sighted," the cyclist said. "When starting the overtake the driver would
have clearly seen the HGV approaching. There was space to pull in behind
me, but instead they chose to pass closely."
https://road.cc/content/news/near-miss-day-873-303487
Simon E | 5225 posts | 13 hours ago
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Rather similar to something I witnessed this week. I was being followed by a large tractor and decided I'd pull in to the side to let it past. Just as I had stopped an estate car pulled out from behind the tractor to overtake.
Although there was no HGV bearing down in the opposite direction there was a vehicle in sight and the driver had obviously not considered that there might be something in front of the tractor. Impatient twat.
Road.cc wrote:
This footage was sent in from Wales, our reader telling us it
resulted in the driver accepting a fine, plus penalty points on their licence, before the case was due in court.
GOOD RESULT.
Operation SNAP is a response to increasing submissions of video and photographic evidence relating to driving offences that members of the
public have witnessed. Until now, these reports have been submitted to
the police in all sorts of ways and so a streamlined process has now been developed to deal with them. This will hopefully make it easier for all involved.
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