In 2017, The Sunday Times reported on unpublished report detailing collisions involving cyclists. The newspaper’s reporter Valerie Flynn wrote how the Department of Transport had advised the Road Safety Authority (RSA) that an unpublished report detailing collisions involving cyclists could be interpreted as “victim blaming”.
The RSA has sense published a more detailed report, ‘Cyclist Injury Trends 2006-2018 – With an in-depth review of 2016‘. But for the record, here is a copy of the report and a copy of correspondence between the Department of Transport and the RSA:
- Record 2 2017.248 (the report)
- Record 1 2017.248 (emails)
- Record 3 2017.248 (emails)
The FOI request response showing the reasoning for blacking out section of the report:
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This website is reader-funded journalism. It won't survive without your help. IrishCycle covers more than just cycling, and with over 917,000 views so far this year, it's not just "avid cyclists" who read the articles, but if you want it to keep going, more support is needed from readers like you. IrishCycle's future depends on you joining the 400 current subscribers.
Thank you,
Cian Ginty
Editor, IrishCycle.com
Many thanks to Derek O’Neill at DTTAS for striving to alter aspects of the report!