helmet laws
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From: Austin TX
Some of you people who feel as strongly as you do either way, on this issue, should go and give your arguments to your city council, congressmen, house of commons, kremlin, or whatever lawmaking body you have in your home country. The constant arguments on this forum, where everybodys mind is made up already one way or the other is pretty ridiculous, don't you think?
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Loosk like michigan won't be repealing their law anytime soon:
http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2011/...3291301415995/
DEARBORN, Mich., March 29 (UPI) -- Eighty-one percent of likely voters in Michigan say the 4-decade-old mandatory motorcycle helmet law should remain, a survey by AAA Michigan indicates.
The survey of 600 likely voters, conducted by Marketing Research Group Inc., found only 16 percent said Michigan motorcycle riders should not be required to wear a helmet.
Jack Peet, AAA Michigan traffic safety manager, says despite overwhelming support for the mandatory helmet law, each year challengers try to get it repealed.
Michigan House Bill 4008 would allow individuals age 21 or older to ride without a helmet if they have a $20,000 medical policy in place, while Senate Bill 291 would allow those age 21 or older to ride without a helmet if they have had their motorcycle endorsement for two or more years, or passed a motorcycle safety course, Peet says.
"We strongly oppose both bills," Peet says in a statement. "Twenty-thousand dollars in medical coverage would barely touch the amount of medical costs resulting from these types of motorcycle accidents. These proposals will result in increased motorcycle fatalities and injuries, and higher costs for all motorists."
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration found that in the three years following Florida's repeal of its mandatory helmet law there was an 81 percent increase in fatalities.
No margin of error was provided.
http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2011/...3291301415995/
DEARBORN, Mich., March 29 (UPI) -- Eighty-one percent of likely voters in Michigan say the 4-decade-old mandatory motorcycle helmet law should remain, a survey by AAA Michigan indicates.
The survey of 600 likely voters, conducted by Marketing Research Group Inc., found only 16 percent said Michigan motorcycle riders should not be required to wear a helmet.
Jack Peet, AAA Michigan traffic safety manager, says despite overwhelming support for the mandatory helmet law, each year challengers try to get it repealed.
Michigan House Bill 4008 would allow individuals age 21 or older to ride without a helmet if they have a $20,000 medical policy in place, while Senate Bill 291 would allow those age 21 or older to ride without a helmet if they have had their motorcycle endorsement for two or more years, or passed a motorcycle safety course, Peet says.
"We strongly oppose both bills," Peet says in a statement. "Twenty-thousand dollars in medical coverage would barely touch the amount of medical costs resulting from these types of motorcycle accidents. These proposals will result in increased motorcycle fatalities and injuries, and higher costs for all motorists."
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration found that in the three years following Florida's repeal of its mandatory helmet law there was an 81 percent increase in fatalities.
No margin of error was provided.
Absolutely 100% bullsh*t wherever that figure came from.....I don't believe a thing the NHTSA says to begin with. Also I have been in front of my city council and my state reps and congressman on trying to keep what little freedoms we have left. It blows my mind to see how readily Americans will give them up. Every letter I get from overseas the soldier in my family can't wait to get home and ride his scoot with No Helmet and his Apes , Thunderheader and his freedom which he earned!!!!!
Let Those Who Ride DECIDE!
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if you clowns don't want to wear a helmet, that is your choice. what should be required of anyone that does not wear a helmet is proof of hospitalization insurance and long term care insurance...at least $100k worth. that way the general public will not have to pay your bills for your stupidity. no helmet--no insurance--no license.
Road Captain
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From: Louisiana
In Louisiana we now have a helmet law b/c our previous governor had a close family friend who got killed because he wasn't wearing one. That has been nearly 8 years ago and our lawmakers are currently working to repeal it. I think it should be a choice. If you chose not to wear a helmet your the only one that suffers from not wearing it. It doesn't hurt anyone else in society but you. That's what I base my belief on. And the stuff about insurance, not sure about other states, but in Louisiana if you don't have insurance you don't get to put your *** on the road.
Like my brother tells me, the only difference in having a helmet or not at 70 MPH and hitting the pavement is an open or closed casket. I've seen no less 12 people killed on motorcycles in my life time. And of the 12, every one of them were wearing a helmet except two. A helmet doesn't do you any good when your body is in 3 different pieces from wrecking at 120 MPH. Its that simple.
Like my brother tells me, the only difference in having a helmet or not at 70 MPH and hitting the pavement is an open or closed casket. I've seen no less 12 people killed on motorcycles in my life time. And of the 12, every one of them were wearing a helmet except two. A helmet doesn't do you any good when your body is in 3 different pieces from wrecking at 120 MPH. Its that simple.
Cruiser
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From: Arkansas
Like my brother tells me, the only difference in having a helmet or not at 70 MPH and hitting the pavement is an open or closed casket. I've seen no less 12 people killed on motorcycles in my life time. And of the 12, every one of them were wearing a helmet except two. A helmet doesn't do you any good when your body is in 3 different pieces from wrecking at 120 MPH. Its that simple.
Road Captain
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From: Louisiana
And even if it were to save your life, the damage to your brain from slamming against your skull could turn you into a vegetable. Spinal injuries could leave you completely paralyzed. If I am going to hit the ground hard enough for either of these things to happen, I would prefer it kill me. What is the point of staying alive if you have zero quality of life??
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From: Oklahoma
First the helmets then will come mandatory reflective vests like road workers wear.
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I wear a helmet when I skydive, when I ski and when I ride my bike, I do so not to protect myself in a major accident, but rather the little incidents that end can end up being major due to not wearing a helmet.
As an example, had a buddy slip on a patch of ice going back to the chair lift, it was a beginner run, hit his head and was in a coma for a week. Any helmet and he probrably walks away laughing at himself falling on that terrain.
Another buddy takes a knee in the head during a skydive and is knock unconcience automatic activation device releases his reserve and he comes to under canopy and lands without incidence, but a helmet would have prevented the scare everyone had in the sky as he tumbled away lifeless.
As an example, had a buddy slip on a patch of ice going back to the chair lift, it was a beginner run, hit his head and was in a coma for a week. Any helmet and he probrably walks away laughing at himself falling on that terrain.
Another buddy takes a knee in the head during a skydive and is knock unconcience automatic activation device releases his reserve and he comes to under canopy and lands without incidence, but a helmet would have prevented the scare everyone had in the sky as he tumbled away lifeless.
Last edited by thosehawks; Apr 6, 2011 at 02:01 PM. Reason: for examples