Calls for cyclists to pay for insurance

cyclistAPPALLING... Cyclists may have to pay bike insurance and license fee (Image: Kwee Ping / Getty)

Labour peer Professor Lord Winston is set to raise the issue this week in the Lords after becoming fed up with bad cyclists riding dangerously in London. According to the last available statistics from 2015, two pedestrians were killed by cyclists that year in Britain and 96 injured, but this was understood to be just the cases reported to police. Thousands more pedestrians are hurt or put at risk by poor cyclists. 

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And Prof Winston, who is a medical doctor but is best known as a TV presenter on science, said it was his personal experiences which had led to his question.

He said: "We are only talking about a minority of cyclists but many people will have experienced problems because of people biking the wrong way down the road or on the pavement or not being careful or

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