Survey will seek broader views on sharing the road with other road users and everyday cycling behaviours.Campaigners and professionals involved in cycling have been some of the strongest voices advocating for the release of road safety data for years, and the Road Safety Authority has obliged by releasing a new report revealing a significant number of serious cycling injuries towards the end of Bike Week, dedicated to promoting cycling.The RSA said that the report includes information from collision records transferred from An Garda Sochna to the RSA, ranging from 2021 to 2025, and data from the Hospital In-Patient Enquiry Database, covering 2020 to 2024.The summary report outlines: Over 2020-2024, 3,305 pedal cyclists were admitted to hospital following a road traffic collision. Over the same period, 1,327 cyclists were recorded as seriously injured by An Garda Sochna. There may be multiple factors explaining this discrepancy, such as AGS not being alerted of a crash, the definitions of injury used in each case, among others.The summary report said that if the people who were cycling who were hospitalised in the same years, 625 (19%) were termed sustained clinically serious injuries, which are those with a higher probability of having long-term consequences on the persons life.Looking across reports for different modes shows that, on average, people who sustained serious injuries while cycling and were admitted to hospital spent four days as in-patients this compares to 7 days for motorcyclists and 11 days for pedestrians. The RSA has so far only published a summary report, marked as a PowerPoint Presentation and saved as a PDF.Publishing PowerPoints as PDFs and marking them as reports has been the norm for RSA in recent years. At the end of the report published today, there is text which states To see the full reports on cyclist serious injuries, please follow this link, but there does not seem to be a related fuller report published on that page.The report and its press release were published in the RSAs usual fashion, with factoids with little or no context. For example, it states that more than half (52%) of all serious cyclist injuries occurred in Dublin, but fails to provide the context that 66% of people who mainly commute to work or school by bicycle do so in Dublin, according to the last Census. It also outlines that Men accounted for 78% of those injured, while women accounted for 22%, but provides no context, such as that women account for 28% of adult cycling commuters and 20% of members of the sporting body Cycling Ireland.New survey The RSA said that the report shows that 71% of hospitalised cyclists were injured in single-cyclist collisions, which is substantially higher than the 20% recorded in An Garda Sochna data.However, hospital data, as published, make no distinction between road collisions and sporting injuries on or off road.The RSA said: While the hospital data provides important insight into the scale and severity of cyclist injuries, it does not provide information about the circumstances surrounding collisions or how those injuries occurred. To address this gap, the RSA will next week begin a national survey of cyclists across Ireland to better understand the contributory factors and circumstances surrounding cycling collisions and injuries on Irish roads.The RSA said that the survey which will be open to people from age 17 and over will ask people who cycle about their experiences on the road, including whether they have been involved in a collision in the last five years and the circumstances surrounding those incidents.It said, that the initiative forms part of the RSAs ongoing work to improve cyclist safety and to build a more complete picture of the factors contributing to serious injuries among cyclists.Michael Rowland, director of research at the RSA, said: Cycling has enormous benefits for individuals, communities and the environment, and it is essential that people feel safe when using our roads. This survey will help us better understand the experiences of cyclists, the circumstances surrounding collisions and injuries, and the challenges cyclists face every day.By complementing the existing data we have on collisions and injuries, with the survey findings, we can develop a much fuller understanding of cyclist safety in Ireland and help inform future road safety measures, policy and education initiatives, he said.