The War on Britain's Roads (BBC Documentary / tabloid tv)

But ultimately cyclists, through bad cycling or mis fortune do not kill and seriously injure many people. Car drivers do.

Cycling is an inherently safer mode of transport than driving. I had a look at the numbers from the DFT earlier this year and on the bare stats a cyclist is something like twice as likely to be harmed than harm, whereas a car driver is 7 times more likely to harm than be harmed.

I know we're very keen on this forum to hold cyclists to high standards but the reality is that drivers need to be held to higher standards simply on their choice of transport.

I just can't see any viable logical link between the fact that its easier to hurt somebody in a car reducing the requirement for other road users to use it safely.