Helmets Here We Go Again. "A Bump to the Head Nearly Killed Our Son"



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The Daily Mail today has a "health" story on page 41. A full page on
how an 8 year old boy was riding a bicycle without a helmet. He hit a
pothole and fell off suffering a head injury requiring surgery.

"Together with the Bicycle Helmet Inititive Trust a registered
charity which encourages the wearing of helmets and safe cycling, Harry
is starting a petition to support the amendment of a Road Safety Bill
going through parliment.
The bill would make it a legal requirement for cyclists aged under
14 to wear a helmet.
Next month the Parents For Helmets Website will be
launched"

I find it very distasteful for BEHIT and the Daily Mail to campaign for
compulsion based on 1 incident whether or not a helmet would have
helped in that particular incident.
According to the article the fall was caused by hitting a pothole
so a campaign for better roads maintainance would be as justifiable.

Iain
 
[email protected] wrote:
> The Daily Mail today has a "health" story on page 41. A full page on
> how an 8 year old boy was riding a bicycle without a helmet. He hit a
> pothole and fell off suffering a head injury requiring surgery.
>
> "Together with the Bicycle Helmet Inititive Trust a registered
> charity which encourages the wearing of helmets and safe cycling, Harry
> is starting a petition to support the amendment of a Road Safety Bill
> going through parliment.
> The bill would make it a legal requirement for cyclists aged under
> 14 to wear a helmet.
> Next month the Parents For Helmets Website will be
> launched"
>
> I find it very distasteful for BEHIT and the Daily Mail to campaign for
> compulsion based on 1 incident whether or not a helmet would have
> helped in that particular incident.
> According to the article the fall was caused by hitting a pothole
> so a campaign for better roads maintainance would be as justifiable.
>
> Iain
>

All the more ironic given their other article in today's issue:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/li...tml?in_article_id=372681&in_page_id=1774&ct=5

Popular toys 'make children fat'
14:24pm 27th December 2005

Unhealthy Christmas presents make children fat, a report on child
obesity said today.

This Christmas's most popular toys do not encourage enough healthy play
and exercise, compared to the favourite toys of the 1970s, a study by
the North East Wales Institute of Higher Education (Newi) says.

Children would be fitter if they played with cult toys such as
Spacehoppers and Chopper bicycles, instead of computer games and dolls,
it says. ........<more>

--
Tony

"The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the
right."
- Lord Hailsham
 
<[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> The Daily Mail today has a "health" story on page 41. A full page on
> how an 8 year old boy was riding a bicycle without a helmet. He hit a
> pothole and fell off suffering a head injury requiring surgery.

In the early hours of last Friday my next door neighbour, a middle aged man
like myself, fell down his stairs. He spent 3 days in hospital with a
dislocated elbow that may require surgery, severe bruising to his abdomen,
neck problems and 50 stitches to a head wound. He looks like he's been hit
by a truck.
I think a law should be passed that requires full body armour and h*lmets to
be worn at all times.
--
Pete
http://uk.geocities.com/[email protected]/Stuff
 
Peter B wrote:
> <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> The Daily Mail today has a "health" story on page 41. A full page on
>> how an 8 year old boy was riding a bicycle without a helmet. He hit
>> a pothole and fell off suffering a head injury requiring surgery.
>
> In the early hours of last Friday my next door neighbour, a middle
> aged man like myself, fell down his stairs. He spent 3 days in
> hospital with a dislocated elbow that may require surgery, severe
> bruising to his abdomen, neck problems and 50 stitches to a head
> wound. He looks like he's been hit by a truck.
> I think a law should be passed that requires full body armour and
> h*lmets to be worn at all times.

And at a more tragic level, there was a report of a woman falling from a
loft ladder when fetching stuff for Christmas from the loft. She died.



--
Nigel Cliffe,
Webmaster at http://www.2mm.org.uk/
 
[email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:

> I find it very distasteful for BEHIT and the Daily Mail to campaign for
> compulsion based on 1 incident whether or not a helmet would have
> helped in that particular incident.

BeHIT have always delighted in shroud-waving - it's how they got
started, after all.

--
Guy
 
[email protected] wrote:
> The Daily Mail today has a "health" story on page 41. A full page on
> how an 8 year old boy was riding a bicycle without a helmet. He hit a
> pothole and fell off suffering a head injury requiring surgery.
>

Seems its the Daily Depress and not the Daily Wail before everyone sends
their letters in.

--
Tony

"The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the
right."
- Lord Hailsham
 
Nigel Cliffe <[email protected]> wrote:
> Peter B wrote:
>> <[email protected]> wrote in message
>> news:[email protected]...
>>> The Daily Mail today has a "health" story on page 41. A full page on
>>> how an 8 year old boy was riding a bicycle without a helmet. He hit
>>> a pothole and fell off suffering a head injury requiring surgery.
>>
>> In the early hours of last Friday my next door neighbour, a middle
>> aged man like myself, fell down his stairs. He spent 3 days in
>> hospital with a dislocated elbow that may require surgery, severe
>> bruising to his abdomen, neck problems and 50 stitches to a head
>> wound. He looks like he's been hit by a truck.
>> I think a law should be passed that requires full body armour and
>> h*lmets to be worn at all times.

> And at a more tragic level, there was a report of a woman falling from a
> loft ladder when fetching stuff for Christmas from the loft. She died.

Even more dangerous is getting out of the bath. Baths should be banned
except for those who have undergone approrpiate safety training and
are wearing the proper safety equipment.

--
Chris Malcolm [email protected] +44 (0)131 651 3445 DoD #205
IPAB, Informatics, JCMB, King's Buildings, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK
[http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/homes/cam/]
 
Chris Malcolm wrote:
>
> Even more dangerous is getting out of the bath. Baths should be banned
> except for those who have undergone approrpiate safety training and
> are wearing the proper safety equipment.
>

As should beds - more people die there than anywhere else and usually
within 24hrs of having consumed water, a truly dangerous substance ;-)

--
Tony

"The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the
right."
- Lord Hailsham
 
Chris Malcolm wrote:

>
> Even more dangerous is getting out of the bath. Baths should be banned
> except for those who have undergone approrpiate safety training and
> are wearing the proper safety equipment.

Doesn't seem to do the Japanese much harm. I'm off to an onsen for a few
days over the New Year - wish me luck!

James
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see web pages for email
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http://julesandjames.blogspot.com/
 
Tony Raven <[email protected]> wrote:

> As should beds - more people die there than anywhere else and usually
> within 24hrs of having consumed water, a truly dangerous substance

parentsagainstdihydrogenmonoxide.org is surely only a step away! Anyone
got the sales number for Astroturf?

--
Guy
 
"Just zis Guy, you know?" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:1h8gcxl.gbaet7km6kwaN%[email protected]...
> Tony Raven <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > As should beds - more people die there than anywhere else and
usually
> > within 24hrs of having consumed water, a truly dangerous
substance
>
> parentsagainstdihydrogenmonoxide.org is surely only a step away!
Anyone
> got the sales number for Astroturf?
>
> --
> Guy

Letter in the Times, 31 Dec 2005:

"Sir, If measured by the number of fatalities occurring during play,
bowls is the most dangerous sport of all (letter Dec 29) as
participants are generally elderly and subsequently prone to heart
attacks and strokes.

"The sport which leads to most insurance claims is surfing, mainly
due to injuries incurred while removing boards from the roof or the
car.

"Dr John Burscough
Brigg, Lincs."
 
Given the widespread strong feeling against BHIT and helmet laws, why
isn't there an organization dedicated to campaigning against helmet
laws in the UK? Although strongly opposed to a helmet law, the CTC has
other priorities. Cyclehelmets.org is the website of a research body
not of a campaign organization. One of these days a UK helmet law
proposal will slip through. That would be a disaster not solely for UK
cyclists, but also it would have a negative impact on other ant-law
campaigns around the world.

So who's leading the "anti" forces?

A. Burdett
Ottawa, Ontario
Author, The Vehicular Cyclist website
http://magma.ca/~ocbc
 
in message <[email protected]>,
the-vehicular-cyclist ('[email protected]') wrote:

> Given the widespread strong feeling against BHIT and helmet laws, why
> isn't there an organization dedicated to campaigning against helmet
> laws in the UK?

Very good question.

--
[email protected] (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/

The Conservative Party is now dead. The corpse may still be
twitching, but resurrection is not an option - unless Satan
chucks them out of Hell as too objectionable even for him.
 
"the-vehicular-cyclist" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Given the widespread strong feeling against BHIT and helmet laws, why
> isn't there an organization dedicated to campaigning against helmet
> laws in the UK? Although strongly opposed to a helmet law, the CTC has
> other priorities. Cyclehelmets.org is the website of a research body
> not of a campaign organization. One of these days a UK helmet law
> proposal will slip through. That would be a disaster not solely for UK
> cyclists, but also it would have a negative impact on other ant-law
> campaigns around the world.

Perhaps we are becoming more 'European'. A quick shrug of the shoulders and
carry on regardless. The same could be applied if/when compulsory helmet
wearing becomes law. After all there are many precedents:-

Cars
------
Using mobile phones while driving
Wearing seat belts while in a moving car
Obeying speed limits
Obeying parking restrictions

Bikes
-------
Not riding on pavements
Obeying traffic regulations
Displaying lights at night

Others
---------
Not dropping litter
No hunting foxes with dogs

See -- all against laws introduced and simply ignored -- mostly without
sanction.

Tony


/dons helmet (steel) and awaits flames/
 
On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 20:09:03 +0000,
Just zis Guy, you know? <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 1 Jan 2006 09:03:24 -0800, "the-vehicular-cyclist"
><[email protected]> said in
><[email protected]>:
>
>>Given the widespread strong feeling against BHIT and helmet laws, why
>>isn't there an organization dedicated to campaigning against helmet
>>laws in the UK?
>
> Like http://www.cyclehelmets.org you mean?

As The Vehicular Cyclist said that group isn't a campaign group against
anything.

It is a group dedicated to undertaking, encouraging and dissemination
(a far better word than spreading) of scientific research on helmets
according to the website.

--
Andy Leighton => [email protected]
"The Lord is my shepherd, but we still lost the sheep dog trials"
- Robert Rankin, _They Came And Ate Us_
 
On 01 Jan 2006 20:18:43 GMT, Andy Leighton <[email protected]> said
in <[email protected]>:

>As The Vehicular Cyclist said that group isn't a campaign group against
>anything.

True enough. But there is a group against compulsion. I will speak
to Certain People about Certain Things and come back.

Guy
--
http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk

"To every complex problem there is a solution which is
simple, neat and wrong" - HL Mencken
 
On Sun, 1 Jan 2006 16:51:30 -0000, "Jeremy Parker"
<[email protected]> said in
<[email protected]>:

>"Sir, If measured by the number of fatalities occurring during play,
>bowls is the most dangerous sport of all (letter Dec 29) as
>participants are generally elderly and subsequently prone to heart
>attacks and strokes
>"The sport which leads to most insurance claims is surfing, mainly
>due to injuries incurred while removing boards from the roof or the
>car.

That made me laugh out loud! Superb :)

Guy
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"To every complex problem there is a solution which is
simple, neat and wrong" - HL Mencken
 
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