Mandatory Bicycle Helmet Laws

[Stuart G]

44. As stated before, this is a health and safety issue...not a libertarian arguement...

H and S affects all, libertarian affects few or some..So, I know two people dead cause no helmets..I am sure their families would have liked it if they had had a helmet on.

One was a motor cycle driver..I think he died in late 80s, maybe early 90s..He was showing off going fast in a parking lot..I was told
slipped or fell........no helmet...dead..

Now the other was very sad. Bike helmets did not exist in l968..I went to his funeral. he was 19/ Hit by a car and fell off the bike, smashed his head..ok for 6 hours then went into a coma..was brain dead in 24 hours.. family pulled the plug..

I know a driver who hated wearing them..but for gas miliage sake, he bought a small car and felt somewhat unsafe cause he always
drove larger cars. (this was during the last time gas spiked up above 4.00..So he is driving safely down a major road, someone
drives through a stop sign, and hits my friend. Guess what ...the seat belt that he wouldn't have been wearing in a larger cars..saved his life.. Low intelligence people do not wear seatbelts, as far as bike helmets, well I see so many motor cycilists and bicycilists without them that I know many will die for lack there of. Asi es la vida...........