Mandatory Helmet Law

[DeniseGoldberg]

I agree with both Robyn and SadieKate.

I don't think there is any excuse for not wearing a helmet. If I hadn't wearing a helmet in my stellar crash two years ago I do not believe I would have survived (since I landed directly on my head). I've been wearing a helmet for many years without landing on my head prior to 2004 - but to me wearing that helmet for the one time that I needed it is well worth doing.

As SadieKate said, I also feel that if folks are hurt when they are not wearing a helmet that the rest of us should not be required to support their stupidity; when the non-helmet wearer doesn't have insurance I really wish they weren't covered by the free care pool (or whatever it's called in other states). It makes me positively ill when I see people out riding without helmets. And what about parents out riding with their kids where the kids are wearing helmets and the parents are not? I wonder what goes through their minds - protect the kids, but if the parents are hurt (or die), who is going to take care of their kids then?

So I'd vote FOR a mandatory helmet law. But it needs to be a law that is enforced.

Any comments from any BC gals out there? I think I remember that British Columbia has a helmet law. True? Does it seem to help, or are there still many helmetless riders out there?

--- Denise