[ST] Re: for your consideration

["Anderson, Neil G (CPR)" <andersng@xxxxxx>]

don draper wrote:

>   From my observation, such restrictions may have been in place in
>Europe for as long as most motorcyclists have been riding (certainly
>in England, I've spent less time in Germany).

I believe the helmet law came in some twenty years ago in the UK, maybe
longer.  Before I started riding, anyway, so I don't know whether a lot of
people protested against the law.

Apparently an interesting side-effect was that it reduced bike thefts.
Opportunist thieves were unlikely to be wandering around carrying helmets,
so they were easy to spot once they'd stolen a bike and were riding it away
without a helmet.  The thieves have certainly caught up now in the UK though
- - London has to be one of the worst places anywhere for bike thefts!

>The only thing in which the American motorists can still take pride is
their forty-percent
>refusal rate as regards the wearing of seatbelts.

That may just mean that 44% of American motorists haven't seen what happens
to someone when they go through a windshield.  The UK ran quite graphic
safety campaigns on this 20 years ago, when the front seat safety belt laws
were introduced.  Have the same sort of pictures been shown widely in the
US?

Neil

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