Helmets again

graham said:

In

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Alberta, where they introduced a law for children, the death and injury

rate

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doubled.

Where the hell did you find this piece of nonsense? Did you make it up?

Graham

Edmonton Sun, July 12 2003:

"Stats were compiled by emergency room surveys for six months - May to
October - in each of 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2002.

The helmet law, which applies to riders under 18, took effect in May 2002.

In the years 1999 to 2001, the percentage of head injuries among all
bicycle-related injuries remained relatively constant at just above 5%.

By the end of October 2002, however, it shot up to above 10% for
children and just under 10% for all age groups.

The stats are "a bit of a surprise," said Alberta Transportation
spokesman Leanne Stangeland. "We did introduce the bike helmet
legislation and so it is a bit of a surprise there would all of a sudden
be an increase like this.""

Of course it is not conclusive and there are a number of questions about
the data on which the stats are based but certainly not "made up
nonsense" as the stats were collected and published by the organisation
that had led the campaign for the helmet law (and were honest enough to
publish the results).

Tony