Wear a helmet!
Saturday 30th August 2008, 10:00AM BST.
From William Allen-Le Bas (aged 9).
I FELL off my push bike last Thursday, knocking a tooth loose and cutting my face quite badly. Even though I was wearing my cycle helmet it hurt a lot, but it could have been so much worse without one.
Since then, I have noticed a large number of people cycling on the road with no cycle helmet on, especially tourists with young children. I dread to think what would happen to these children if they were involved in an accident.
It’s illegal to ride a motorbike without a helmet so I don’t see why it should be any different for push bikes. I think we need a law to make wearing a cycle helmet compulsory. Maybe the cycle hire companies would consider hiring out cycle helmets too?
St Brelade.
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Actually cycle helmets are pretty useless. Where they have been tried on a large scale, nothing has happened to the head injury rate, see http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/332/7543/722-a. The main reasons seem to be that the foam is too stiff and too easily broken, for references see the Wikipedia article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_helmet#Criticism_of_current_standards.3B_new_designs.
I don’t wear a helmet, since I found out the facts.
I’d be worried that in an accident like yours, the helmet would push my face into the ground and change a minor scalp wound into a broken tooth and facial cuts.
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