Our response: government to introduce new offence of causing death or serious injury by dangerous cycling

Duncan Dollimore, our head of campaigns, said:

"Last night, the government announced a kneejerk plan to do part of a job badly. Ten years ago, government ministers recognised that road traffic laws weren’t effective in reducing irresponsible behaviour on our streets and promised a full review of traffic offences and penalties, which still hasn't materialised.

"Having done nothing to address these much wider problems with road traffic laws, the government wants to legislate on one piece of the puzzle without having thought through how this will work more broadly - including how it plans to deal with e-scooters and other forms of micro-mobility, or what other road traffic offences need to be changed.

"If the government is serious about making our roads safer for everyone, it should revisit the wider review it promised ten years ago."