A new report has found that cyclists over the age of 45 are the most likely to end up in hospital or be killed on the nation’s roads.

Figures compiled by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare show 90 per cent of the victims are men and that over the last 17 years hospitalisations have ballooned by more than 500 per cent.

Anne Savage from Bicycle Queensland tells Mark the research is a call to arms and it is time the Palaszczuk Government set up a Road Safety Commission.

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