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Subject: Re: [Bikies] CA Proposed Mandatory Helmet Law
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 16:49:05 -0600
From: Brian Mink <[email protected]>
To: Michael Rewey <[email protected]>
As someone who has worked on Rehab Units in Hospitals for my entire
career I would love to see mandatory bicycle helmet laws. Deaths are one
thing, closed head injuries are what most cyclists suffer who hit their
heads while cycling. Such injuries can be devastating and generally
prevented with more widespread helmet use. At some point we really do
need to move toward mandatory helmet usage and figure out how to fund
free helmets versus tickets and other means of getting everyone to the
point where they wear a helmet. These kinds of injuries are really
easily prevented with helmet use.
Brian Mink
Michael Rewey wrote:
I agree with the Cal Bike Coalition opposition for many reasons.
First it would make the poor
the most likely violators. Why not motorcyclists? Why not Pedestrians.
Mike Rewey
On 19 Feb 2015 at 15:40, Clayton Griessmeyer wrote:
California Bicycle Coalition is opposing a proposed mandatory bicycle
helmet (and
reflective night clothing) law. They say it will make California´s
streets less safe.
They argue:
Bicycling with or without a helmet savesas many as 77 livesfor every
life lost in a crash. Per hour of
participation, bicycling isthree times safer than swimming, and twice
as safe as riding in a car. And
it´s getting safer. Since 2000, by rate,the risk of bicycling injury
in California has dropped 45%.
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