As Motorcycle Deaths Rise, Feds Urge States Adopt Strict Helmet Laws

September 12, 2007

  • September 13, 2007 at 7:18 am
    Nobody Important says:
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    This topic always gets a lot of posts. I am a helmet fan. It would be tough not to be since I am alive due to wearing mine. I see people in states that don’t require them riding around without helmets and can’t imagine how anyone can be that stupid. Just my opinion. Now it’s time for all the anti-helmet law people to come out and tell us how this article is lying. As so many have said here in the past, let them go without helmets. We can weed out the dumb ones.

  • September 13, 2007 at 10:21 am
    Nebraskan says:
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    I know in one state, seat belts are required and helmets are not. Riddle me that one!

  • September 13, 2007 at 12:25 pm
    another guy named Rick says:
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    …Illinois?

    Why one without the other?? Easy. The seat belt law was mandated by the Fed. Don’t comply and you lose your Fed’l highway funding.

    No such Fed’l mandate has come down regarding seatbelts.

    What IS strange is that Illinois did have a helmet law and it was repealed in the early 1970’s after bike riding activists raised a successful fuss.

  • September 13, 2007 at 12:26 pm
    NHTSA Lies says:
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    Time and time again this governmental unit comes out with their imputed statistics and claims them to be god’s truth. This group continually lies in order to promote special interests by extorting federal dollars out of states hands in order to force compliance.. I’m getting my checkbook out and writing another check to ABATE in order to protect my personal freedoms against government nannying.

  • September 13, 2007 at 12:29 pm
    another guy named Rick says:
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    Re: my previous comment……..last word of 2nd paragraph should be HELMETS….not seatbelts.

  • September 13, 2007 at 12:33 pm
    Nobody Important says:
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    It’s always a lie when you don’t agree with the numbers presented. I don’t care about the numbers, just common sense. I will oppose legislation to do away with helmet laws whenever possible.

  • September 13, 2007 at 2:01 am
    Scott says:
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    Baltimore City has a law that bans off road motorcycles from city streets, yet every day I see kids riding dirt bikes up and down the city streets. I live just a few blocks from a police station too. To make matter worse, these children never have a helmet on. Laws don’t work unless they are enforced. If people choose to kill themselves I say let them. Stupid is as stupid does.

  • September 13, 2007 at 2:05 am
    Chris G says:
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    How much more simple can it get. Plus what good is a helmet if you get hit by a truck like the article states. Oh you can be a limbless piece of meat that can still think. how pleasent.

  • September 13, 2007 at 2:07 am
    The Benevolent One says:
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    I actually work with Chris G and can state beyond a shadow of a doubt that he is not a limbless piece of meat. Now get back to work.

  • September 13, 2007 at 2:09 am
    Debbie in NW FL says:
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    It boggles the mind that there is a law requiring children under 16 to wear a helmet while bicycling but adults do not have to wear helmets when on a motorcycle.

    If the impact of the decision not to wear a helmet impacted only the motorcycle driver I would not mind so much. However, it impacts the family, the health care system, the EMTs that have to respond as well as any other person who might be involved in the accident.

    Florida repealed their helmet law a few years ago. The woman who spearheaded the charge was killed within a few weeks on the bike – no helmet. And Florida’s requirement for a $10,000 med coverage is worthless.

    In wide open states with little traffic – it makes some sense. But, in Florida – with all the traffic and retirees – the repeal did not make sense.



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