The following is lifted from the latest edition of the CCN news, so apologies to them.
As already widely discussed in this group, HMG has seen fit to issue a report into cycle helmets, in
April this year. The report has received considerable criticism, but it is apparent that the DfT's
Road Safety Division is using the extremely questionable results to take some draconion measures
about helmets, including refusing to allow any pictures of un-helmeted cyclists in official
documents.
The research has been criticised in an article by John Franklin.
The CCN article suggests that concerned cyclists should read the report and the criticism and make
their views known to Tony Blair, Alastair Darling, John Spellar.
The research is available at www.roads.dft.gov.uk/roadsafety/roadresearch/bicyclehelmets/index.htm
and the criticism at www.cyclenetwork.org.uk/papers/broader.pdf
I am anti-compulsion myself, but I think that anyone reading these documents, even pro-compulsion
people, will be disgusted and concerned at the way this research has been done.
Cheers
Rich