CLOSE OVERTAKE AE09GYP service 55 Stagecoach

AE09 GYP service 55 hill rise -houghton rd. The driver doesn't give me much room and cuts back before he has actually overtaken. That's a shared cycle path/footpath on the left, I usually get on to it because the road is awful, but there is no way to ride on to it from that junction plus there was a pram and kiddies further up.
This happened to me before when I had to slam on brakes as the driver(same bus company) cut back into me as he was only half way past, with nothing else on the road, this is why I got a camera over a year ago.
Do Stagecoach drivers dish out 'their own' punishment to cyclists, or at best, incompetent?

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• St.Ives bus close overtake
• St.Ives Cambridgeshire
• CLOSE BUS OVERTAKE
• AE09GYP
• service 55 Stagecoach
• stagecoach guided bus
• stagecoach guided bus cyclist
• stagecoach huntingdon
• stagecoach Cambridgeshire

[nigglenoo]

No offence but it looks like you were riding in the gutter? Maybe riding in the left hand wheel track, 1m+ from the curb, would have made him wait then do a proper job of overtaking when it was clear? Just my 2p worth...

[MelloVEL0]

@nigglenoo Yeah I know what you mean, but the guy is a professional driver, nothing should have stopped him making a 'proper job' of it. He couldn't even judge how long his vehicle was. Unless that was on purpose.

[CyclingMikey]

That's an awful overtake!!

[MelloVEL0]

@CyclingMikey I'm worried it looks like nothing on video, I could have touched the side of that, especially cutting back into the side of me with the tail end of the bus.

[BadSwindoomRoadUsers]

That's a coincidence I also had a problem with Statecoach No. 55 today.

I have sent an email to their local office complaining, not sure anything will happen but I thought worth a try.

[MelloVEL0]

@BadSwindoomRoadUsers Are they one of the newer buses that carry video themselves? I wasn't sure if Stagecoach do.

[arsenal639]

this was in st ives

[BoringVideosInk]

@MelloVEL0

When he overtakes and pulls in it looks bad....Too close anyway....

[TheVexatiousLitigant]

@MelloVEL0 I know what you mean, I look at my videos and the 135 deg. wide angle lens has embarrassedly distorted the view, like security mirrors do in shops, it only takes a small increase in the gap to make a big difference to the perceived distance. There is also the feeling that viewers expect to see extreme videos. Anybody with a similar camera will know how dangerous that overtake was.

[BadSwindoomRoadUsers]

@MelloVEL0 I emailed Stagecoach with a copy of my video. I got an apology yesterday from the local manager indicating the offending driver had been told off and that he should drive more carefully.

[mobiletone]

i had some bastard bus overtake me a week back, but not enough room so he pulls back in, i figure he knows i'm there, but no, he keeps on and wedges me into the curb right by his back wheels, highly fucking dangerous! lucky i thumped on the side of the thing and bunny hopped over the high curb. he then had theh nerve to gesture at me like it was my fault!

[CyclingMikey]

@MelloVEL0 It's true - though I think it's obvious to anyone who takes care to look and compare distances just how close that was.

[downfader2]

From the rear facing camera you can see just how close that was.

[BadSwindoomRoadUsers]

@MelloVEL0 Not sure Stagecoach buses in Swindon are that modern, they tend to be older compared to other companies, although the one in my video is only 4 years old. If I get a reply from Stagecoach maybe they will tell me if they have on board cameras.