DOT Helmet controversy continues in Frisco
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customers for ~ss transit? If that is
their plan, it won't work.
Bullbureaus to the contrary, the
national experience has shown
compulsory helmet laws to be a direct,
one-to-one tradeoff as far as safety is
concerned. The only real, discemilile
difference between voluntary and
involuntary helmet wearing, as far as
safety is concerned, is approximately
one percentage point in favor of
volun tary self protection. Even though
that difference is on the side of
individual rights, it is not enough to
argue abou t when there are SO many
more important motorcycle safety
matters.
Meanwhile, the hassle and
harassment, ' the damage to
motorcyclists' dignity and the risht of
an individual to determine his own best
interests marks the helmet law as one of
the meanest, dirtiest tricks that a
government of, by and for the people
continues to perpetrate upon a minority
of ufree" people.'
Under questionjng, Buchanan
admitted that he was puzzled by one
fact in their survey. Apparen t1y the
Michigan group suffered a significantly
higher number of serious head injuries
per accident than the Illinois riders. He
tries to explain thjs away by claiming
that Mjchigan is more rural, while
nJinois is more urban, and that rural
accidents might happen at higher speeds
than in a town or city. At least he hopes
so.
Otherwise the DOT's own study
would suggest that that extra few
pounds they make you strap on your
head may be responsible for a lot of
human vegetables that might otherwise
be whole, or else perhaps, dead. Which
is better? In -four of our sovereign states,
you decide. In all the rest, the DOT has
already decided for you.
C. Clayton
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