A bus stops illegally several feet into a cycle-only box at traffic lights. Only 2 per cent of cyclists regularly jump red lights, but many say this is why.

STATISTICS

Behaviour on the roads

Needless animosity between drivers and cyclists is credited with many deaths on the roads.

Only 2 per cent of cyclists regularly jump lights.

31 per cent of drivers admit to stopping illegally over cycle-only advanced stop boxes at traffic lights. Drivers face a £60 fine and three points on their licence for doing so.

Of pedestrians injured by red-light jumping, 4 per cent are hurt by cyclists, 71 per cent by cars. In 2009, no pedestrians were killed by cyclists, while 426 were killed by motor vehicles.

55 per cent of drivers acknowledge that the biggest improvement to safety would come from an improvement in driving near cyclists, rather than a change in the behaviour of cyclists.

42 per cent