A motorist nearly crashed as he was blinded by the brilliant white light of an optical phenomenon known as an ice rainbow.

Keen photographer Reyaz Limalia, spotted the rare sight while driving near Birdlip, Gloucestershire and stopped the car to take a picture, although not before he nearly crashed into another vehicle coming in the other direction, due to the radiant light reflecting on his windscreen.

Known to weather officials call a '22 degrees halo' because of its circular formation of 22° around the sun, Rayez is one of the only few to have captured one of these rare sights on camera.

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