Near miss in an overtaking zoneMotorist didn’t want to use the overtaking lane despite the left lane ending in less than 500m
Incident type: Car
Driver had plenty of room to move into the other lane or wait until view of oncoming traffic was clear. Very unsafe.
Car overtook me doing well over the 50kmh speed limit.
Temperature was around 0c but was bright and clear. Approached left hand bend in dedicated cycle lane when car close passed me and entered cycle lane. No traffic on other side of road so no need to be so close.
Close pass by Jayco caravan owner. Captured from the rear on Garmin Varia followed by front end with CycliqPlus.
Not a wonderful video, as it’s dark, wet and icy and the psycho in the Audi passed at speed entirely within the left lane, and much closer to me than to the oncoming large van/ minibus. It’s typical of what we have to suffer in Lancashire with a very cyclist-hostile police force who never take action against drivers who offend against cyclists. This offence will be ignored like all the others
Green Pass is a pretty bad local driving school- previous offence shown on https://upride.cc/incident/yx74soj_greenpass_closepass/. The instructor, who is Carl according to the sign on the car roof, is telling the learner to avoid crossing the unbroken white line by simply staying within the left lane and close passing the cyclist. Worse still, the company claims to be training driving instructors! Unfortunately, there’s no learning opportunity here, because the company did not respond to the video of the previous offence, and Lancashire Constabulary will, as always, ignore the offence