Years ago some friends were driving with their young son and were t-boned by a red-light running car driver along Segoe. The child received substantial head injuries.
With no side (or front) air bags at the time, I started wearing my bike helmet in the car. My kids never followed my example. However, whenever we saw them dash away on their bikes without a helmet, we'd lock up their bikes for a day, which was a severe penalty, as they were rabid about tearing around at Quarry Park. That helped make good helmet wearers of them. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of STRAWSER, Charles Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2012 8:23 AM To: Richard Schwinn; Bikies Subject: Re: [Bikies] re; helmet law I am all for using helmets, and encouraging (though not harassing) others to do so, too. But if we are to have a law requiring helmet use in Wisconsin, then it should apply equally to all vehicle operators and occupants. A peer-reviewed study in Australia suggests that 67% of head injuries suffered by occupants of cars in crashes could be prevented by wearing a "motoring helmet": Yet no one is even discussing requiring car drivers, let alone motorcyclists, to wear a helmet. Why the double standard? http://www.copenhagenize.com/2009/10/australian-helmet-science-for-motorists.html "The results from Phase 3 indicate that a headband can greatly reduce the severity of an impact to the head. HIC was reduced by 25 percent [...] with the use of 25 mm of BB-38 polyurethane, and 67 percent with the honeycomb cardboard prototype, when compared with an impact with no headband." [cid:[email protected]]<http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kSNVKrktKUQ/SubvAw6y3HI/AAAAAAAAEHQ/dpf4uprk6lQ/s1600-h/car+helmet+impact.jpg> Chuck Strawser Pedestrian & Bicycle Transportation Planner Commuter Solutions Transportation Services UW-Madison Room 124 WARF 610 Walnut St Madison WI 53726 608-263-2969 www.wisc.edu/trans<http://www.wisc.edu/trans> -----Original Message----- From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]]<mailto:[mailto:[email protected]]> On Behalf Of Richard Schwinn Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2012 11:39 PM To: Bikies Subject: Re: [Bikies] re; helmet law Helmet use on cyclists reminds me about the old saw about condom use. "By the time you need one, if it's not in place, it's way too late . . . . " On a more strategic note: Those who study the history of the Catholic Church and the rise of the Jesuit order might learn a lesson from their strategy. Back about 500 years ago, the Church was suffering from a intellectual stultification, violent inquisitions, unparallelled corruption and rebellion in the form of the Reformation. Loyola and his band were highly spiritual, but not in the way of church dogma. So they were always only a step away from the inquisition themselves. So they hopped off to Rome and told the Pope that if he would support them (i.e. prevent the inquisitors from getting to them), they would become his most powerful defenders. He did, and they made the Counter-Reformation happen, better than the Pope could have ever dreamed. It would serve BFW and other groups well to become the leaders in helmet evangelism. _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org
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