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26th January 2007

A cyclist has had his original conviction for “inconsiderate cycling” overturned at a retrial Shrewsbury Crown Court, in a high-profile case supported by the Cyclists’ Defence Fund.

Cyclist Daniel Cadden had been convicted in August 2006 on the basis that he had chosen to ride on a busy single-carriageway road when there was a cycle track available on the opposite side of the road. However at retrial, the judge and two magistrates accepted the arguments put forward by Cadden’s barrister that there were contradictions in the police’s evidence, that there was no legal obligation for cyclists to use cycle tracks and that causing only a short delay to drivers did not constitute “inconsiderate cycling”.

For more information see press release from CTC the national cyclists’ organisation.

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