Cycle Helmets

[armb]

Eric Martlew's Private Members Bill to make cycle helmets compulsary (for under-16's, but compulsion campaigners admit they intend this to be the thin end of the wedge) hasn't been defeated, but it has at least been set back which is a good thing.
The BBC's reporting is rather misleading here. The British Medical Association, for example, is also opposed to compulsion, and the campaign hasn't won the support of "Formula One star David Coulthard" so much as "promoter of his own brand of cycle helmet David Coulthard".
The real problem is that the measure is likely to increase the accident rate for cyclists. See http://www.cyclehelmets.org for example.

Comments

[armb.livejournal.com]

Another BBC report gives a little bit more balance.