Officers from the Roads Policing Unit have stopped 8 cyclists today in Merseyside and they have been reported for contravening Red Traffic Lights.

If you have committed a minor traffic offence, like cycling on the pavement or failing to stop at a red light (i.e. contravening a traffic signal), the police have the power to issue you with a one-off fine called a Fixed Penalty Notice (FPN).

A FPN offers you the opportunity to discharge any liability to conviction by payment of a fixed sum of money. In other words, if you pay the fine you will not be prosecuted. As there is no prosecution or conviction, you will not get a criminal record.

The fixed penalty for minor cycling related traffic offences will not normally exceed £50.

About time..

Bless, they don't know any other way to ride on our roads do they

Only eight in the whole of Merseyside, pathetic, they are not trying? I usually see more illegal acts by cyclists than that on my nightly dog walk!

The FPN for cyclists running red lights should br £100, the same as it is for drivers, after all it is the same offence.

Not all cyclists pass on red, and not all drivers stop on red.! Don't bash cyclists, the problem covers all road users, just a shame this site doesn't provide details of the offences by all. I don't think they have ever just reported on drivers passing red....

"Safety officials have released a list of the Merseyside hotspots where drivers jump red lights. The figures reveal almost 2,000 motorists were caught out at one city centre junction alone last year." (Liverpool Echo 8th Jan 2017)

That's 5.5 per day at one junction alone.! Balanced reporting? I think not....

I don't believe anyone is bashing cyclists, it's
just they think like some taxi drivers that they can do what
the hell they like.Whilst discussing attitudes, there seems to be more and more disabled scooters outside certain establishments
In town for a lengthy period of time. Do these persons come under the DD rule? If so, when was the last one breathalysed?

So which is it?

Have they been reported for the offence or given a FPN? Each is different.

Try and at least get half the information correct. More Poundland journalism.

Cyclists should have to pay insurance, however nominal, for their own and other road users well being as well as being liable to prosecution for any road traffic offence like any other road user IMHO.

Originally Posted by cjacko69

Cyclists should have to pay insurance, however nominal, for their own and other road users well being as well as being liable to prosecution for any road traffic offence like any other road user IMHO.

As a cyclist who is as law abiding as the average motorist, I agree entirely and indeed have a fairly decent (nominal is no good) - £10m of third party cover.

Now maybe they might like to do something about what appears to be the latest craze amongst the juvenile halfwits of seeing how far they can ride on one wheel down the middle of the road or footpath in the dark, dressed in black with no lights. I might just be unlucky but hardly a day goes by without coming across at least one of these cretins.

Originally Posted by Albion102

As a cyclist who is as law abiding as the average motorist, I agree entirely and indeed have a fairly decent (nominal is no good) - £10m of third party cover.

Ditto for me too...! Just a shame we are all given a bad name via generalisaion...😒