Cyclists tell of horror injuries on Luas lines

CYCLISTS are sharing photos of injuries they have suffered after falling on the Luas tracks as part of a campaign to make cycling in the city safer.

Dublin Cycling Campaign (DCC) said it had received multiple messages from people who have fallen while cycling on or near the tram tracks.

It wants to highlight the dangers the Luas lines pose to cyclists in the city.

DCC published a compilation of the stories people shared. In one a woman said her husband had been left with permanent injury following a crash.

“My husband was permanently injured as a result of his tyre becoming lodged in the Luas track,” the woman said.

“He spent three weeks in hospital with a grade six tibia plateau fracture, and a broken fibula. He spent six months with external fixation and will need a full knee replacement in the near future.”

Another person said they had to “peel two cyclists off the road at the junction of College Green and Westmoreland Street when they came a cropper on the Luas track”.

“One was OK but the other injured herself fairly badly, so much so that I had to store her bike for her in our bike shed where I work nearby,” the person said.

Colm Ryder, of DCC, believes Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) has not listened to cycling groups concerns.

“TII are the ones that are responsible for the lines, but it hasn’t engaged with us properly,” he said.

TII did not respond to the Irish Independent at the time of going to press.