{"id":730008,"date":"2026-08-07T03:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T03:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/730008\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T03:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T03:26:11","slug":"norfolk-among-uks-most-dangerous-counties-for-cyclists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/730008\/","title":{"rendered":"Norfolk among UK&#8217;s most dangerous counties for cyclists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The county was ranked ninth out of 37 counties and county authorities in a study by process safety consultancy Sigma-HSE, which analysed Department for Transport data on cycling-related road casualties.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Incidents involving cyclists accounted for almost 10pc (9.51pc) of all road casualties in Norfolk in 2024, higher than the national average of 8.13pc.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Cyclists accounted for 9.51pc for all road casualties in Norfolk in 2024 (Image: Denise Bradley)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Dr Dina Deifalla, operations manager at Sigma-HSE, said: &#8220;The cyclist share of casualties shows how much of the harm on a road network is landing on the people with the least protection.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The study recorded a total of 2,154 road casualties in Norfolk, with 205 involving cyclists.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Researchers argue that focusing on the proportion of cyclist casualties, rather than raw numbers, better reflects the risks faced by riders in each county.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Norfolk ranked third out of six East of England counties.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In 2024, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/news\/24404154.police-crackdown-road-safety-cyclists-norfolk\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Norfolk police introduced Operation Close Pass<\/a>, which was designed to identify drivers who do not\u00a0allow enough room when overtaking, tailing or crossing the paths of\u00a0cyclists.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Eight drivers were issued with Traffic Offence Reports\u00a0for use of their mobile phone and excessively tinted windows.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\" alt=\"Person cycling in Norwich\"\/>Norfolk ranked third out of six East of England counties, the region which recorded the highest average in the country. (Image: Denise Bradley)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In Oxfordshire in the South East, cyclists accounted for 17.73 per cent of all road casualties, placing it at the top of the county rankings.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The South East sits second to the East of England in the regional table.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Dr Deifalla added: &#8220;Cyclist safety moves with road design far more than with rider behaviour, and separated space with junctions rebuilt where collisions cluster does more than helmets, hi-vis and awareness campaigns.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In total, 4,354 of the 53,530 road casualties recorded across all 37 counties involved cyclists.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Norfolk Police have been contacted for further comment about what is being done to protect cyclists on the roads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The county was ranked ninth out of 37 counties and county authorities in a study by process safety&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":730009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-730008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}