Push for laws to compel cyclists to wear high-vis tops and helmets

Mid-ranking gardaí are to push for new laws to compel cyclists to wear high-vis tops and helmets in a bid to save lives on the road.

Push for laws to compel cyclists to wear high-vis tops and helmets

The annual conference of Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors also heard calls for all pedestrians to be obliged to wear reflective jackets but this was rejected by most delegates given the impracticality of enforcing it.

Pushing a motion for pedestrians and cyclists to be covered in news laws, Sergeant Sean Callaghan of Sligo-Leitrim said he was speaking from local experience involving pedestrians in rural and mainly unlit roads.

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