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Swiss MPs reject helmet law
Swiss MPs have voted overwhelmingly against making cycling helmets mandatory for children under 14, saying that it was an issue for ‘personal responsibility’.
As part of the debate over road law revisions, MPs voted 136 to 46 against the requirement.
The opposition to the move, made up of representatives from across the political spectrum, noted that 70 per cent of children already wear helmets.
Transport Minister Doris Leuthard disagreed however. She told World Radio Switzerland: “It is not that we think parents won’t pay attention to kids, and thus put this helmet rule in place. Every head injury we can prevent makes this regulation worth it.”
Australia and New Zealand began to implement helmet laws for all cyclists in 1990 and 1994 respectively. A survey in New Zealand earlier this year suggested that helmet requirements had halved the number of cyclists on the road.
After an unpromising start, having to be bribed by her parents to learn to ride without stabilisers, Sarah became rather keener on cycling in her university years, and was eventually persuaded to upgrade to proper road cycling by the prospect of a shiny red Italian bike, which she promptly destroyed by trapping a pair of knickers in the rear derailleur. Sarah writes about about cycling every weekend on road.cc.
The INEOS kit is red and blue, so I am obliged to like it.
That was kind of my point. I know the code isn't the law ("more of what you'd call 'guidelines' than actual rules"). I'm very happy that there's...
Can we go back to something like this?
SAD, that is a lot of people who dislike their immediate families
Broken glass on top of a wall is considered "man trap" - because someone is only likely to become aware of it when they are injured. Barbed wire...
Bore, bore, bore, boring. Have you really nothing better to offer than that tired old stuff?
The D-lock crazed the window (well the parts that didn't shatter)...
I see your barrier attacking a lorry and raise you a gantry trying to decapitate a lorry https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-59518516
It took me most of an afternoon but at amateur speed and being quite pernickity. I agree, hard to tell a customer that £30 mudguards cost the same...
Not sure about the UK, they'll likely be in our general stats and not sure you'd find them in that. However since the Netherlands has a great deal...