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Highway Safety Motorcycle Helmet Laws Save Lives and Reduce Costs to Society

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If helmet laws save lives, why do states with helmet laws suffer more fatalities per 10,000 registered motorcycles than states who have no helmet laws (3.38 deaths compared to 3.05 deaths per 10,000). Where is the conclusive evidence that shows helmet laws save lives. Helmets can only fully protect a rider at impacts of less than 14 miles per hour. How many accidents occur between car and motorcycle that involve each vehicle going only 7 miles an hour and isn't avoidable. Helmets may reduce the number of fatalities due to head trauma but the number of deaths due to neck injuries go up with helmet usage, so either way you die of something. As for saving society money, more than 70% of car/motorcycle accidents are the car driver's fault, so cyclists should where helmets so injuries the negligent driver inflicts on the rider cost less? Come on. Why do states that have motorcycle helmet laws not have laws requiring car drivers to where helmets? Only 20% of serious injuries to motorcyclists are head related while 90% of all car injuries are head injuries. Anyone who argues that motorcyclists should be forced to wear helmets, better be wearing one when I see them behind the wheel of their car.

This book should be scorned and avoided! Accident avoidance not helmets save lives! Buy a book about improving your riding skills instead!

If a person wishes to risk personal injury without endangering others he should be allowed to. The freedom to choose was one of the founding principles of this country. Every law that is written "for our own good" chips away at everyone's right to decide what path his or her life will take. Continue to give up your right choose and the government will soon be deciding what you eat for breakfast -for your own good!