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In response to some serious calls in Germany for compulsory helmet usage, a relatively interesting report has come out by a researcher who calculated the rough cost of such a scheme, factoring in the extra health costs incurred by the inevitable drop in cycling. In German but running it through translate gives you a reasonable idea...
it's a pretty cold Freidmanesque analysis, but it raises some interesting points.
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Conclusion: extrapolating everything together in this society-wide balance, results in a loss of 278 million euros per year. In the case of a helmet, there are fewer people killed and seriously injured cyclists, but high spending on helmets and more heart attacks - and for all those who are abandoning the cycling due to the helmet or less cycling.
Victory therefore discourages a helmet. "One should consider better, how to make safe cycling, as better infrastructure or an inner-city rule top speed of 30 km/h."
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Courtesy Bing
Could be a Renfrewshire Ayrshire thing but this thread contravenes rule 2 of the forum.
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