Ciarán Cuffe (Dún Laoghaire, Green Party)
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Question 706: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of road traffic collisions which have taken place in the Dublin city area between cyclists and heavy goods vehicles in which cyclist fatalities have occurred during the period 2005 to date in 2009; the status of the Garda investigation in each case; if proceedings against the driver of the HGV have been instituted; the judicial outcome of each case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33591/09]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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I am informed by the Garda authorities that 11 fatal road traffic collisions involving pedal cycles and heavy goods vehicles are recorded as having occurred in the Dublin Metropolitan Region between 2005 and to date in 2009. With respect to the seven collisions which occurred between 2005 and 2007, investigations were completed and investigation files submitted to the Law Officers. No prosecutions were directed. With respect to the two collisions which occurred in 2008, investigation files were submitted to the Law Officers. No prosecution was directed in one incident. A prosecution was directed in the other incident, and the driver was convicted of having no insurance, contrary to the Road Traffic Acts, as amended. Two incidents have occurred to date in 2009. Following the submission of an investigation file to the Law Officers in one of the incidents, a direction was issued to charge the driver with careless driving. The matter is before the courts. The other incident remains under investigation.