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White cycle helmetSwiss 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.
Sadly I don't get paid if I don't show up for work so I ride regardless of the weather but obviously there is always the option to get off and walk...
Sounds like a great idea. I wouldn't want to do 15mph on most cycle lanes I've used but I'd happily stick to the road and go at 20mph.
eSports there must be some joke about Yorkshire in there.
WOW, you really hated the canal then, although I understand if it was wet or freezing and if the (long gone) Tyburn road bus lane was in operation...
If he didn't park in a car park, how did he get a parking charge? Who parks in the pavement "because some random said it was ok" ?
The police and the shyster defence lawyer would describe the registration as personal information!
There's one on my commute. I always switch to the road to avoid the future bus passengers as they mill about, eyes glued to smartphones, headphones...
Discerning eh? Well, I'll see your black latex gloves and raise you a Muc-Off apron......
I say, how did the sparrow cross the ... oh, OK.
Forecast over here barely has the air temperature tipping into the positive day and night into next week (it was around -6 in parts of the country...