Police and courts fail cyclists over road safety, says cross-party inquiry
"...for police to be more receptive to video evidence from cyclists’ on-bike video cameras..."
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"Police and courts fail cyclists over road safety, says cross-party inquiry"
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Posted 6 years ago #
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Full report: https://allpartycycling.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/appcg-justice-report-2017.pdf
The fourteen recommendations:
* The Highway Code should be revised
* The driving test must be changed to help improve driver behaviour towards cyclists
* Professional drivers should be retested more frequently
* Roads policing should be given a higher priority
* The Government and other local authorities should adopt similar partnerships to the ones in London in other parts of the country, to counter the risk posed by illegal freight operations
* The Department for Transport and Ministry of Justice should research the growing discrepancy between road casualty figures
* More police forces should adopt close passing enforcement practice on a wider scale
* The police must ensure that a higher standard of investigation is maintained in all cases where serious injury has resulted
* All police forces should ensure that evidence of common offences submitted by cyclists, or other witnesses, using bike or person mounted cameras or smart phones is put to use, and not ignored
* The length of time required by the Police to serve a Notice of Intended Prosecution for a road traffic offence is currently just 14 days and must be extended
* Confusion and overlap between ‘careless’ and ‘dangerous’ driving means that often bad driving does not receive the level of punishment that the public feel it should, the MoJ should investigate how these offences are being used
* The police and CPS should ensure that victims and bereaved families are always kept adequately informed throughout the process of deciding charges
* The Ministry of Justice should examine the reasons behind the decline in the use of the penalty of disqualification
* The Soft Tissue Injury Reforms – the ‘whiplash reforms’ – should not include injuries to cyclists or pedestrians
Posted 6 years ago # -
One they left off:
* The courts should no longer be swayed by arguments that the lawbreaker "needs" his car. The right to drive is conditional on driving safely and legally. And, if someone "needs" their car, then they "need" to remember this, and not rack up penalty points.
Posted 6 years ago # -
@gibbo, perhaps that is covered by this?
"The Ministry of Justice should examine the reasons behind the decline in the use of the penalty of disqualification"
Posted 6 years ago #
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