The Cyclists Defence Fund, set up by the charity Cycling UK to help with legal cases and raise awareness, believes the "over-reliance" on custodial sentences for bad driving offences is discouraging the police and CPS from pursuing more prosecutions. In April we compiled data from a range of sources to provide some background to the issue
- Department for Transport statistics: Casualties involved in reported road accidents (RAS30)
- Figures on convictions came from an FOI by BBC's Newsbeat: Cycling deaths: Fewer than half of drivers face jail
- Transport Committee report on road traffic law enforcement
- Bar chart: fewer than half of drivers who killed cyclists were jailed
- Line chart: Fall in road policing in England and Wales
- Line chart: Cyclist casualty rates