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Bicycle helmet law can save lives
Isn't this one of the 10 commandments? So why do we need another law?
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Garrison Hilliard writes:
Saturday, May 1, 2004 Bicycle helmet law can save lives Ah, the quarterly helmet thread. Goody. Did you write this nonsense? Editorial Today, Cincinnati joins several area cities, along with 20 states and more than 125 communities nationwide, in taking a small but important step to protect children's safety. snip Unfortunately, such laws become necessary when adults neglect to take this simple, obvious step that saves kids' lives. Often, helmet laws work as a reminder, boosting voluntary helmet use without putting undue burdens on families. When New Jersey passed a state law in 1992, usage among kids quickly jumped from 10 percent to 69 percent. That translates directly into lives saved. Prove it. Nationally, about 250 kids a year die in bicycle mishaps, and thousands receive serious head injuries that often lead to permanent disabilities. Locally, about 90 percent of kids brought to Children's Hospital after bike mishaps have head injuries. Jennifer Ringel, a pediatrician instrumental in the passage of Blue Ash's ordinance last fall, argued that helmet use could prevent 75 percent of bike fatalities and 86 percent of head injuries. Again, prove it. Requiring helmet use is a common-sense measure that can prevent needless costs to society and heartache to families. More communities should follow suit. Because the gov'mint always knows better? The simple fact is that it is the helmet industry that claims helmets save lives. This ignores the evidence, however, which does not show a reliable correlation between helmet use and lives saved. For one thing, many people who die in bike accidents die from laceration and blunt trauma wounds to abdominal organs. Helmets don't help with these. The assumption made in the sort of specious estimates given by distraught ER doctors and pediatricians are that all cycling-related deaths are specifically caused by brain injury, when in fact that is not the case. Indeed, the types of impacts that a helmet can absorb probably wouldn't have been fatal although they would have hurt. This opinion is from a liberal who usually wears a helmet, BTW, on the grounds that it is not inconvenient, not an affront to my masculinity, won't do me any harm and might possibly help even though I think that's unlikely. Plus it keeps peace with my wife, and I'd rather pick a more important battle. ;-) I have found my helmet helpful twice- once when I crashed in a road race and it kept me from getting road rash on my head, and once when I was knocked off my bike and assaulted. |
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Frank Krygowski wrote:
The idea that we should not discuss mandatory helmets in this group is foolish. Perhaps rec.bicycles.misc would be more appropriate. No reason to cross-post it to *.tech It's more pertinent than global warming, the conquest of Iraq, gun control, and many other recurring themes. That's for sure! Matt O. |
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Zog The Undeniable wrote:
H**met laws are nearly always pushed by people who don't ride bikes. The two main promoters of a law in the UK are both fat, unhealthy-looking and haven't been on a bike for years. So that's where David Coulthard's been going wrong this F1 season? -- R. Richard Brockie "Categorical statements The tall blond one. always cause trouble." |
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Tim McNamara writes:
I have found my helmet helpful twice- once when I crashed in a road race and it kept me from getting road rash on my head, and once when I was knocked off my bike and assaulted. Yow! My helmet has helped me exactly once -- when a drunk college kid randomly decided to throw a bottle at my head as I rode by him one evening. It just bounced off my helmet and did no harm at all... Chris -- Chris Colohan Email: PGP: finger Web: www.colohan.com Phone: (412)268-4751 |
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Zog The Undeniable spake thusly on or about Sun, 2
May 2004 07:09:41 UTC - As we British would say, "********!" A similar law was proposed in the - UK, but failed last week. The problem is that bike use declines - massively as soon as a law is brought in. It takes years to recover, if - it ever does. - get them off the damned bikes and they will not be killed or hurt their heads. proof that helmet laws save lives and reduce head injuries. I wear one but do not require anyone but my child to wear one. my reasons are my own injured head and broken helmetsover my nearly 40 years of riding. other folks my land differently. you could always wear the thing on your elbow... -- I hurt before the ride so fibro gives me a head start on the rest of the pack. silver lining? |
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Richard Brockie wrote:
So that's where David Coulthard's been going wrong this F1 season? Heh. I was talking about these two, but I see your point ;-) http://www.bikebiz.co.uk/daily-news/article.php?id=3942 |
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