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We take the issue of cycle safety very seriously.The Department for Transport collects data on all personal injury road accidents reported to the police. Data on all individual accidents in the years 2005-10 is available to download at"http://data.gov.uk/dataset/road-accidents-safety-data"Data for 2011 will be uploaded in late summer. These data are used widely by local authorities across Great Britain to target safety improvement work on the roads they manage. Departmental officials are also currently analysing the data to identify areas where high numbers of cycling accidents have occurred.I, along with my colleague the Minister for Cycling, the hon. Member for Lewes (Norman Baker), have recently written to all local highway authorities in England explaining what the Government are doing on cycling and cycle safety and also what action they could consider taking in their areas. Furthermore, the safety sub-group of the Cycling Stakeholder Forum, which brings together government, cycling groups and local authority representatives has already started looking into the issue of road sharing. |