Gardai & Cycling

I would say they concentrate on the perpetrators most likely to kill someone, evidence shows that cyclists and motorists break traffic laws at an equal rate, its motorists that kill people. and if you want bang for your buck and save the most lives - better to target motorists.

I don’t believe they investigate accidents unless someone is injured or a lot of damage is caused. That’s what I was told anyway.

The only injury I can recall occurring from a pedestrian and a cyclist colliding, was in phoenix park a few years back. Cyclist was killed when he collided with a pedestrian in the cycle lane.

I've seen cyclists stopped by gardai for running red lights a doing few timesz but I've never seen a ca pulled over, despite seeing far more cars doing it.

I wish I could shorten the quote.

Last time I checked Garda issued about 3 fixed cyclist penalty fines a day nationally. I don't know if thats changed in the last year or so.

We didn't really know the stats on accidents with cyclists, they don't keep accurate stats and don't seperate someone falling off their bike on mountain or garden from an accident on road or pavement. We only really know where people died sadly. Thats pretty rare thankfully.

Considering the abysmal standard of driving we can hardly say they are proactive with driving enforcement either.

It's not vs anything. I haven't compared them. You just have though.

You mentioned both driving and the enforcement of drivers in your opening post, that's what I'm replying to.

Can't say either thing has happen very much to me. If you're in the habit of colliding with things perhaps time to do things differently. If not then why obsess about it.

Leaving the Luas out of it for the moment? They're the barometer with recorded incidents on the ground in the city. You're basically saying "Leaving the actual stats & facts out of it for the moment"

As a pedestrian in Dublin I see a lot more cars breaking lights and breaking other laws than cyclists. As a cyclist in Dublin I see a lot more cars breaking lights and breaking other laws than cyclists. When I'm in the car it seems like cyclists are worse, but they're not. Look at the dash-cam video thread on boards.ie from Irish people driving on Irish roads. 99% of them are of drivers mucking up, very few of cyclists and believe me they love a good "cyclist mucking up" vid... there just isn't that many of them.

In the UK research shows that in car/cycle related crashes (not including kids) 70% of the incidents are the fault of the motorist and they're better motorists than we are so it would be similar here if not more.

Cyclists kill & injure very very few people. That's why the Gardai concentrate on motorists.