29% increase in cycling accidents? Really?

i heard the government was planning to make cyclists pay road tax and have number plates? surely that will never work? i hope?

Both of those come up constantly. Search on the forum for 'Vehicle Excise Duty' and you'll find a few threads, I think. As for compulsory registration, none other than Ken Livingstone floated that one a few years ago, and we had a pretty good and effective campaign against it. It will come up again.

the article should read "29% increase in nosy ba$t4rds reporting cycling accidents"

The LV= data was not based only on reporting of collisions but also on a YouGov survey with additional inferences. The CTC has asked LV= to provide its actual data so that it can be examined properly, but as far as I'm aware LV= haven't done that yet. As it is, as far as anyone can tell, the data is of very dubious value.

Cycling organisations are actually very much in favour of accurate levels of reporting. We want to know what really goes on so that we can tell the Government what it should be addressing by its policy. This will be higher than the current official reported figures, but it is unlikely to be 9.25 times higher, as the LV= figures apparently are.