Difference between car-to-cyclist crash and near crash in a perpendicular crash configuration based on driving recorder analysis.

•Using recorded videos on a car’s driving recorder, car-to-cyclist crashes and near crashes were compared with each other.•Car-to-cyclist crashes would not be avoidable when the car enters an area where the deceleration required to stop the car is more than 0.45 G.•The first car-to-cyclist crash scenario is that the delay in the drivers’ reaction in activating the brakes.•The second car-to-cyclist crash scenario is that the sudden appearance of a cyclist from behind an obstacle on the street.