It's definitely a strange phrase in some ways. But I would say that the way the wording makes sense if you consider 'near' to be an adjective to 'miss' and that

It's definitely a strange phrase in some ways. But I would say that the way the wording makes sense if you consider 'near' to be an adjective to 'miss' and that 'near' in this case means 'close' and not something else like 'approximate'. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/near_miss https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/near_miss