FORMER cycling champion Chris Boardman has led fresh calls for changes to road users turning at junctions.

The Olympic gold medallist, now British Cycling policy adviser, said Britain should follow the European standard where anyone turning at junctions gives way.

It comes amid concerns over the safety of road users, particularly cyclists who experience motorists cutting across them to turn left while the bike continues straight ahead.

Boardman, whose mother Carol was killed in a collision with a pick-up vehicle while cycling in Connah's Quay, North Wales, in July, told BBC Breakfast: "At the moment there are 14 rules around junctions and they're all announcing different things.

"What we have in the vast majority of Europe is a very simple, universal rule that you give way when you're turning.

"It just creates a duty of care for everybody and it makes it really simple. No-one's quite sure what the rules are. It compels people to treat others as human beings and not obstacles.

"At the moment, nobody's quite sure (of the rules)."

The 48-year-old, who won individual pursuit gold at the 1992 Barcelona Games, said the current rules were "over complicated".

He said: "We should just say we give way when we turn left. You look in your mirror if you're turning left, which is what good road users do right now anyway, and if there's somebody there you come off the accelerator.

"This is definitely not a mandate to overtake on the inside, it is about everybody looking after each other."

Cycling campaigners recently accused the Government of "victim blaming" in a new road safety video which depicted a collision between a bicycle and a left-turning lorry and advised cyclists to "hang back".

The Department for Transport (DfT), which released the video, said it was aimed at improving safety for all road users.