Yeah? Unless you’re the poor sod who hits the halfwit on the bike with dark clothing and no lights who just rides straight across a junction in front of you as you pull out, unable to see the idiot when you look either way, and go straight over the top of him.
But I guess that would be considered inconsequential by some…
Clearly it is important but if you actually do some research you’ll find that virtually all car/bike interfaces are found to be the drivers fault. Not the result of no lights or low vis clothing or even no helmet. Riding without lights, while inadvisable, does not leave people dead, without limbs or sucking through a straw the rest of their life.
Focus should be made where we know it will make a significant difference. And we know that using the mobile phone while driving causes many, many crashes every single year. Once the police have reduced the number of people crushed under a lorry driven by a mobile phone toting driver to the same number killed by someone not using lights on their bike, then it’s time to get them careless cyclists.
Until then, I’d actually like to see police using their discretion to get statistically deadly behaviours stamped out.