Helmets for car occupants?

The Health Promotion Journal of Australia calls for car drivers to use
helmets:

http://www.abc.dotars.gov.au/library...-Editorial.pdf

"JFJones" wrote in ...
The Health Promotion Journal of Australia calls for car drivers to use
helmets:

Maybe this would discourage people from using 3-ton SUV's to drive their
kids 1/2 mile to school?

It's interesting that they use the argument that bicyclists and
motorcyclists are required to use helmets, but they neglect to mention that
requiring bicyclists to use helmets didn't really make bicycling any
safer...
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On 28 Sep 2004 07:42:38 -0700, (JFJones) wrote:

The Health Promotion Journal of Australia calls for car drivers to use
helmets:

http://www.abc.dotars.gov.au/library...-Editorial.pdf

Motorists who don't uses helmets are Darwin Award candidates.

On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 17:29:27 GMT, "mark" wrote
in message .net:

It's interesting that they use the argument that bicyclists and
motorcyclists are required to use helmets, but they neglect to mention that
requiring bicyclists to use helmets didn't really make bicycling any
safer...

And was in any case a response to the danger posed by motor vehicles,
which is somewhat ironic when you consider that... No, I think we can
all fill in the blanks.

Guy
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"JFJones" wrote in message
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The Health Promotion Journal of Australia calls for car drivers to use
helmets:


http://www.abc.dotars.gov.au/library...-Editorial.pdf

How far is it from there, I wonder, to a call for kids to wear helmets at
all times on the school playground? Or do they already do that in Oz?

Mark

Chris B. wrote:
On 28 Sep 2004 07:42:38 -0700, (JFJones) wrote:


Motorists who don't uses helmets are Darwin Award candidates.

I (don't really) work in an ER and can't tell you how bad it really is. We
have a euphemism for car drivers that don't wear helmets. We call them
organ donors.

/sarcastic_rant_mode=off

Austin

In rec.bicycles.misc AustinMN wrote:
I (don't really) work in an ER and can't tell you how bad it really is. We
have a euphemism for car drivers that don't wear helmets. We call them
organ donors.

/sarcastic_rant_mode=off

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I (don't really) work in an ER and can't tell you how bad it really is. We
have a euphemism for car drivers that don't wear helmets. We call them
organ donors.
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Chris B. wrote:
On 28 Sep 2004 07:42:38 -0700, (JFJones) wrote:


Motorists who don't uses helmets are Darwin Award candidates.

I (don't really) work in an ER and can't tell you how bad it really is. We
have a euphemism for car drivers that don't wear helmets. We call them
organ donors.

/sarcastic_rant_mode=off

Austin

Maybe each time there's a proposal to mandate bicycle helmets,
cyclists could lobby for an amendment to have motor vehicle users
included, citing the Australian source.

It would guarantee that not one more bicycle helmet law would ever be
passed anywhere.

JFJones wrote:
Maybe each time there's a proposal to mandate bicycle helmets,
cyclists could lobby for an amendment to have motor vehicle
users included, citing the Australian source.

It would guarantee that not one more bicycle helmet law would
ever be passed anywhere.



If you go the Source, you will find that it is not the editorial policy of
the journal but is a letter from a researcher active in sensible evidence
based opposition to compulsory helmet laws for cyclists.

He has written much good stuff on the issue.


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