With motorcycle deaths rising--are helmet laws needed?
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06-12-2007, 06:00 PM
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With motorcycle deaths rising--are helmet laws needed?
Know what makes story about as stupid as saying "guns kill people"? The fact that nowhere in this story is there any indication whether the dead riders were wearing helmets or not.
Besides, I fail to see how a $15k funeral is more expensive on society than 30 years of medical costs to treat a paraplegic, but if someone would like to educate me in one paragraph or less I'm all ears.
We don't have helmet laws here in MN, and that's exactly the way we want it to stay there ol'Mark Kulda,lobbyist for the insurance industry - ya friggin' numb-nut.
http://www.kstp.com/article/stories/S110026.shtml?cat=1
Besides, I fail to see how a $15k funeral is more expensive on society than 30 years of medical costs to treat a paraplegic, but if someone would like to educate me in one paragraph or less I'm all ears.
We don't have helmet laws here in MN, and that's exactly the way we want it to stay there ol'Mark Kulda,lobbyist for the insurance industry - ya friggin' numb-nut.
http://www.kstp.com/article/stories/S110026.shtml?cat=1
With motorcycle deaths rising--are helmet laws needed?
Minnesota is already on a pace to surpass motorcycledeaths in 2006-- which was one of the deadliest years for motorcyclists ever. After four motorcycle-related deaths in two days--some people are wondering if helmet laws are needed.
Monday afternoon, Jerome Caron, 64,died after being thrown from a motor scooter in Rosemount. His passenger,Robyn Meddings, 61, was airlifted to Regions hospital; her condition is unknown.
On Sunday, three people died in two different motorcycle accidents.
A man and woman from Bloomington were killed when the motorcycle they were riding on collided with a car in Cottage Grove, the State Patrol said; and later in Carver County, a motorcyclist died when his vehicle left the road at County Road 40 and Highway 25. The victim was taken to Ridgeview Hospital in Waconia, where he died.
Mark Kulda, an insurance industry lobbyist, says the time has come for a motorcycle helmet law.
"The more incidents of death means we pay in more of the insurance premiums and higher health care costs-- because people don't wear their helmets," Kulda said.
Kulda says there is no helmet law proposal currently at the state Capitol.
Minnesota is already on a pace to surpass motorcycledeaths in 2006-- which was one of the deadliest years for motorcyclists ever. After four motorcycle-related deaths in two days--some people are wondering if helmet laws are needed.
Monday afternoon, Jerome Caron, 64,died after being thrown from a motor scooter in Rosemount. His passenger,Robyn Meddings, 61, was airlifted to Regions hospital; her condition is unknown.
On Sunday, three people died in two different motorcycle accidents.
A man and woman from Bloomington were killed when the motorcycle they were riding on collided with a car in Cottage Grove, the State Patrol said; and later in Carver County, a motorcyclist died when his vehicle left the road at County Road 40 and Highway 25. The victim was taken to Ridgeview Hospital in Waconia, where he died.
Mark Kulda, an insurance industry lobbyist, says the time has come for a motorcycle helmet law.
"The more incidents of death means we pay in more of the insurance premiums and higher health care costs-- because people don't wear their helmets," Kulda said.
Kulda says there is no helmet law proposal currently at the state Capitol.
#3
06-12-2007, 06:10 PM
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RE: With motorcycle deaths rising--are helmet laws needed?
More lives would be saved if we made people in cars wear helmets.
And glasses.
And glasses.
#4
06-12-2007, 06:13 PM
RE: With motorcycle deaths rising--are helmet laws needed?
Same deal here in NH - no helmet law, but the media loves to point out first thing in a "news" piece that the rider "wasn't wearing a helmet" regardless of whether they had a head injury or not. BS.
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06-12-2007, 06:19 PM
RE: With motorcycle deaths rising--are helmet laws needed?
ORIGINAL: edilgdaor
More lives would be saved if we made people in cars wear helmets.
More lives would be saved if we made people in cars wear helmets.
#7
06-12-2007, 06:43 PM
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RE: With motorcycle deaths rising--are helmet laws needed?
I wonder if they've stopped to consider the fact that there are more motorcycle deaths every year, because there are more motorcycles on the road every year.
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#8
06-12-2007, 06:45 PM
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RE: With motorcycle deaths rising--are helmet laws needed?
Helmet laws are only good for people under 18 that are too young to make a reasonable decision for themselves.
#9
06-12-2007, 06:51 PM
RE: With motorcycle deaths rising--are helmet laws needed?
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Besides, I fail to see how a $15k funeral is more expensive on society than 30 years of medical costs to treat a paraplegic, but if someone would like to educate me in one paragraph or less I'm all ears.
Besides, I fail to see how a $15k funeral is more expensive on society than 30 years of medical costs to treat a paraplegic, but if someone would like to educate me in one paragraph or less I'm all ears.
There should be a law that anyone who thinks 30 years of medical treament for a paraplegic would cost les than $15,000.00 not be allowed to wear a helmet.
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06-12-2007, 06:55 PM
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