Sadiq Khan's cycling tsar was punched by a cyclist for defending the Highway Code, The Telegraph can reveal.

The deputy mayor of London for transport, Seb Dance, revealed he was attacked while on his bike after a fellow cyclist ploughed through a “floating bus stop” without stopping for pedestrians at a zebra crossing.

It comes after a survey by this newspaper found last week that such crossings, labelled "death traps" by campaigners, see just one in 10 cyclists stop to let pedestrians pass.

The Mayor of London has overseen a proliferation of Amsterdam-style floating bus stops, where busy cycle lanes are wedged between the pavement and a bus stop island, with a zebra crossing bridging the two.

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