Sir, Nick Freeman (Thunderer, Sep 3) describes the government’s consultation on new cycling offences as “an empty, headline-grabbing move”. He notes, correctly, that “the number of cases involving collisions between cyclists and pedestrians is tiny” compared with those involving motor vehicles. Yet he is quite wrong to suggest that “cyclists can commit road traffic offences with impunity”. Cyclists can be — and are — fined or prosecuted for all sorts of offences, including jumping red lights, riding on pavements or without lights, and “dangerous” or “careless” cycling. The real problem with the government’s review is that it ignores hundreds of cases every year where road crimes result in death or serious injury, yet the victims (many of them pedestrians as well as cyclists) do not…

Source: The Times September 04, 2018 23:00 UTC