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Close pass operation

Police receive record number of camera submissions in 2025… most of them from cyclists (again)

11,282 journey cam reports of road safety incidents were submitted to Avon and Somerset Police in 2025, with 7,674 coming from cyclists

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Close pass operation

Police sent more footage of dangerous driving than ever before – as officers warn “goal is to make roads safer, not target drivers”

Avon and Somerset Police received 8,595 videos of alleged road offences from motorists and cyclists in 2024, 90 per cent of which resulted in some form of action being taken

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Feeeder Road, Bristol (Google Street View)

Three masked moped-riding teenagers arrested after “horrifying” series of attacks on cyclists

Police have identified 13 incidents this month which saw cyclists pushed from their bikes, leaving one with a broken collarbone, while a woman was sexually assaulted by the moped attackers

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Mangotsfield Old Railway Station on Bristol and Bath Railway Path – via Matt Buck on Flickr Creative Commons

Robber caught by police within 24 hours of council installing CCTV cameras on popular cycling and walking path, dubbed the “Wild West” after several violent bikejackings

Calls for installing CCTV cameras on the Bristol & Bath Railway Path, made by cyclists for months, were finally heeded by the council after two bikejackings at knifepoint left cyclists saying they felt “safer between buses and cars”

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Bristol & Bath Railway Path, near Whitehall Primary School, Bristol (Google Maps)

“I feel safer between buses and cars”: Violent bikejackings force cyclists to avoid popular cycling path which has turned into “Wild West” with an “epidemic of joyriding”

After cyclists claimed they didn’t feel comfortable riding solo at night on the Bristol & Bath Railway Path following a number of recent knifepoint bike robbery incidents, South Gloucestershire Council has now said it will install CCTV along the route

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Pair jailed for deliberately mowing down cyclist (Avon & Somerset Police)

Police release “absolutely sickening” footage of cyclist deliberately rammed off bike, as men behind separate incident on pedestrian jailed

While investigating an attack that saw an NHS worker rammed and seriously injured as he walked home, Avon & Somerset Police discovered footage on one suspect's phone of a cyclist being deliberately run over in a second incident days earlier

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Mangotsfield Old Railway Station on Bristol and Bath Railway Path – via Matt Buck on Flickr Creative Commons

Fears cyclists could be “gravely injured” by “speeding” e-scooter gang intimidating users on popular Bristol & Bath Railway Path

Avon and Somerset Police said plans to install CCTV on sections of the route are "being progressed", as path users have reported "people have seen them travelling as fast as 50 miles per hour"

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Shaldon Road, Bristol (Google Street View)

20-year-old female cyclist followed and assaulted by road rage driver after gesturing for him to give her space

The motorist allegedly followed the cyclist before attacking her, kicking her bike, and shouting obscenities at her, police have said

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The Inch bike theft via Facebook.PNG

“Consider taking different routes home”: Police warning to cyclists that thieves following riders to steal bikes later

Police advised cyclists to "check to see if you are being followed" and change routes regularly

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Taunton bike robbery (Avon and Somerset Police)

Cyclists, 13, have bikes stolen after being “deliberately driven at” and threatened

Avon and Somerset Police said the teenagers were unharmed but left shaken following the incident

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