Cycling: Road Traffic Offences
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she is taking steps with Cabinet colleagues to help increase prosecutions of cyclists who jump red traffic lights.
Answered by Simon Lightwood
Enforcement of traffic offences of this sort is a matter for the police. Those who cycle have a duty, like all road users, to behave in a safe and responsible manner and to follow the rules set out in The Highway Code.
It is already an offence for cyclists to cycle without due care and attention or without reasonable consideration for other road users.
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