I'm not too sure, the chart is percentage based, and although the ratio of 4 wheels to 2 is very high in somewhere like the USA, they also have the vehicles spread over a far larger area. I doubt if the city traffic densities are much different between many of those countries.
I do collect and file the interesting and useful ones that I come across, never known if they might come in useful.
Definitely not. Both recent political party governments have firmly blocked private members attempts to introduce this for the UK. They know it will kill any attempts to get youngsters back on bikes cycling, contra to policy. The Channel Islands often do odd things, for example they once had bicycle registration with number plates on all bikes!!!
Works a treat in the states too.this is more a case of restricting the power of private insurance companies and the legal profession who are the ones actually pushing these cases through the Courts. Which of course would cause bleating in the media about people being "denied justice".
The problems here are-does wearing a helmet allow you/your son /family/friends to cycle in a more reckless manner subconsciously or otherwise .Do motorists take less care when overtaking you etc assuming you are less vunerable than a non helmeted cyclist ?
There is certainly a balance of risk, but you will struggle to find a genuine safety argument against helmets. I don't wear one, but I probably should in front of my grandson, and I hope I would never kid myself that not wearing a helmet made me ride more safely. The most persuasive argument I heard during the time when they were debating making motor cycle helmets compulsory was that helmets create quadraplegics out of people who would otherwise have died! My father hated car seat belts because of a fear of being upside down in a crashed and burning car, with both wrists broken! But "you can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into".
You all know that here in GodZone (NZ) helmets are compulsary. The maggots (and I mean that entirely in a loving way
) that zoom around my neighbourhood all seem to love their fullface downhill helmets as cool fashion accessories. The students who ride into the university in their hundreds every day can be split into utility commuters (your normal lid) and the cool kids in skate helmets.
Yep, you would. And the bobby would tut tut at you, and tell you next time wear your helmet. Once a generation went past, you'd never think of not wearing it - it just becomes normal. Just like wearing your pants. I am assuming you wear pants.
A few years ago, I paid £275 for the best cycle helmet money could buy. It was a lot of money but I was worth it.Personally I leave having accidents to the helmet wearers who like to regale the world with lurid tales of how they would have died without their helmet.
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That really was a lucky escape Lemmy, it would have been awful to have wasted £275 in that way.
And we would all be non the wiser.You seem to contradict yourself a bit there.
