Near Miss of the Day 306: Mini driver left-hooks cyclist

Today’s video in our Near Miss of the Day series shows the moment a Mini driver turned left across the path of a cyclist without indicating in Bermondsey, south London.

The footage was submitted by Simon, who said that he’d love to get the views of fellow road.cc readers on it. The left-hook itself is at around 2 minutes 10 seconds into the video.

He said; “I typically ride a 12 mile route to my home in Charlton from my work in London Paddington.

“This was just as I was turning on to the A200 near Tooley Street.

“I have reported it to the Met Police and they have rejected it as not being worthy of them doing anything about it because ‘We feel the mini indicated in plenty of time for you to be able to see that he was turning left’."

Simon continued: “Yes the driver was indicating, but surely they have to also check that it's safe to turn across another lane of traffic and cause other road users to brake and turn in to a different road?

“Anyway, clearly I have a different view to the police, but would be good to know what others think about this.

“I've also asked the police if their interpretation of the law is that as long as you are indicating, you have the right to turn in to other traffic without being at fault for any accidents. Could be an interesting precedent for them to set."

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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.

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