Saturday 19 March 2011

Institute of Advanced Motorists Cycle Helmet Poll

http://www.iam.org.uk/iam_polls/

Poll closes on 17 April. There is a reasonable range of questions, and not too many, and the chance to comment as free text. This is your chance to plug road danger reduction and point out that the benefits of helmets accrue to pedestrians and car occupants just as much as cyclists.

I am definitely against cycle helmet compulsion, and a cycle helmet sceptic in that I haven't been convinced that the benefits / advantages of cycle helmets outweigh the disbenefits / disadvantages, but this does not mean that helmets don't have benefits. If they do have benefits, and if compulsion will help realise them, then why should pedestrians and car occupants not be compelled to wear them too?

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