Scots councillor has terrifying near miss while on E-bike

In the shocking footage, a car almost strikes SNP councillor, Paul McCabe, when the driver fails to give way as he cycles an e-bike on a roundabout.

The moment a Glasgow councillor is almost knocked from his bike by a motorist, as he narrowly avoids a ‘potentially catastrophic’ collision has been caught on camera.

In the shocking footage, a car almost strikes SNP councillor, Paul McCabe, when the driver fails to give way as he cycles an e-bike on a roundabout.

After the terrifying near miss which left his hands like “jelly”, the councillor wants to highlight the dangers of driving at speed. Cllr McCabe, who represents the Linn ward, had been returning from a visit to the new Govan-Partick bridge on Saturday, September 7 when the incident occurred.

He entered the roundabout — where the monument to the Battle of Langside stands — from Langside Road. He said: “You can see that he continually speeds up. He’s just going to go right through there without slowing down.

“I thought I was hit. It was slow motion… I’m just ready to come off the bike. God knows how dangerous this is going to be. I stopped and looked back, you can see how far over the give-way sign he is. I put the bike down because my hands were all jelly."

After the incident, Cllr McCabe pulled into a car park to calm down. He also spoke with the driver about the incident.

He continued: “I think it’s important to highlight that this is how easy it is to create an accident. In terms of the speeds, if you’re speeding up in an SUV and you hit a bike, it’s going to be catastrophic. That could potentially have been catastrophic. It was literally a fraction of a second.”

Glasgow City Council is aiming to achieve ‘Vision Zero’ by 2030. “That’s when nobody gets killed or seriously injured on Glasgow’s roads,” Cllr McCabe explained.

He said people “need to change their behaviour”, make sure they drive at a safe speed and slow down at give way signs. “When you are coming to junctions, you have to slow down until it’s safe to go.”

Brake, the road safety charity, says the risk of injury increases exponentially with impact speed, with a crash at 30mph involving a lot more energy and destructive potential than a crash at 20mph.

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Cllr McCabe said he hoped the driver would learn from the incident and urged cyclists who record footage of near misses to report them to Police Scotland.

A Police Scotland spokeswoman said there had been “a report of careless driving which happened on Battlefield Road on Saturday, September 7.

“A 45-year-old man has been issued with a fixed penalty notice in connection with a road traffic offence.”

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