Bicycles: Lighting

(asked on 12th April 2024) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the (a) safety of the use of bright LEDs on cycles and (b) adequacy of standards regulation on those lights.


Answered by
Guy Opperman Portrait
Guy Opperman
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 17th April 2024

Requirements for the fitment and use of bicycle lamps are set out in the Road Vehicles Lighting Regulations 1989 as amended.

Enforcement of road traffic law is generally an operational matter for individual Police Forces.

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