Mandatory Helmet Laws & stuff (MHL discussion)

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Postby outnabike » Sun Aug 31, 2014 10:16 pm

A bit silly if they don't push for helmets as well.

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Postby yugyug » Mon Sep 01, 2014 12:49 am

Interesting. And probably dumb. I spearfish at lurline regularly. I would definitely NOT want to be wearing a life jacket if I got swept off the rocks in heavy seas. Far better to dive under and out and wait until the set ends. That's me and I'm a strong swimmer though, dunno about the Asian fishos who (anecdotally) are the ones copping the death toll. Not sure exactly what I'm saying bit maybe it's this: Politicians, please stop trying to win points with dumb emotional people by proposing things which are stupid, over protective and take away freedom to be self responsible.

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Postby Xplora » Mon Sep 01, 2014 10:18 am

^^^ yug, it could be argued that allowing dumb emotional people to vote is equally selfdefeating...

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Postby yugyug » Mon Sep 01, 2014 10:20 pm

^ I think Socrates had something to say about that, or something, I can't quite remember.

Anyway, its not like everyone votes for every issue every time. I just think its politicians making policy by how they think it plays with the electorate, rather than thinking it through properly.

Anyway I had a chat with a spearo mate about this and he thinks its a kind of racism - a lot of the rock fishos around the eastern suburbs are chinese, and the locals don't like it. Making lifejackets mandatory will deter them. Just a theory, but does it ring another bell?

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Postby human909 » Wed Sep 10, 2014 2:48 pm

Oh dear god. Bicycle Victoria you have out done yourself again in pandering to own narrow viewpoint. When you post an opinion piece that is all about why we should wear helmets please don't title it "The helmet debate" (Harriet Edmund finds out why the 23-year debate about Australia’s mandatory helmet laws has just intensified.)

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When Meredith Clark woke up at 11am on a summer’s day last year she was lying on the ground on the outskirts of Melbourne’s CBD. She had no idea how long she’d been unconscious.

“I remember slipping as I stood up to accelerate on my bike and the bang when my head hit the concrete. That was it. I blacked out.”

Lack of memory is a classic symptom of concussion—the most common type of head injury. It’s when your brain knocks against your skull and facial bones causing it swell and even bleed.

When the 58-year-old came too, the reality-check sunk in. In her 30 years as an intensive care nurse she’s seen how head injuries from falling off bikes, horses and skateboards can change people’s lives, forever.

“Once your brain is damaged, it never truly repairs itself,” she says. “It’s not like some organs that can regenerate.”

Clark says she was wearing a helmet at the time. A move she believes saved her from a more serious, life changing (or life threatening) injury. The research would agree.

When 2011 University of New South Wales (UNSW) research attributes a 29 per cent reduction in bicycle-related head injury to Australia’s mandatory helmet laws, it’s difficult to argue against the safety precaution. But, there are the vocal non-believers. So when hundreds of international cycling experts gathered in Adelaide for the Velo-city Global conference in May, opposition to the helmet laws was fierce.

Safety first

Australia was the first country in the world to enforce mandatory helmet laws, costing you a $A57 and $A180 fine depending on which state you offend in.

With few countries taking up the laws since Australia did in 1991, international cycling circles are often quick to criticise the rules. Velo-city Global delegates from New York, Israel and Copenhagen were among those to speak out against the legislation. They argue it’s better infrastructure, not helmet laws, that improves safety for cyclists.

Sydney University’s Professor Chris Rissel, who presented at the conference, agrees: “Most other countries recognise these laws are a failure because of the clear adverse consequences such as reduced cycling participation and the perception that cycling is not safe,” he says.

Some of Prof Rissel’s latest research, published in the Health Promotion Journal of Australia, shows one third of 600 Sydney respondents do not support the laws, while one in five would cycle more if they did not have to wear a helmet.

“The greatest gains in cycling safety will come from more and better cycling infrastructure that separates people from traffic,” he says.

A similar assessment was made in a 2011 national Riding a Bike for Transport survey. The main reasons the 1,000 online respondents gave for not cycling more often were unsafe road conditions, speed and volume of traffic, a lack of bicycle lanes and safety. Lack of time or motivation featured well down the list.

It’s a view Garry Brennan, Bicycle Network’s General Manager, Government and External Relations both agrees and disagrees with. He agrees that better infrastructure is needed to retain and increase the number of people cycling. But he maintains helmets are still necessary to save lives. “We know from our insurance claim data that crashes happen even on the best infrastructure with no cars involved.”

On your bike

The cycling fraternity watched closely to see if Australians would be turned off riding when the laws were introduced. After all, back then; helmets were available in either Stackhat or bulky foam varieties.

Ian Ker, Principal at CATALYST (Consulting in Applied Transport, Access and Land Use Systems), who based his Velo-city presentation on a paper titled, Neo-Political Action and a New Public Policy Paradigm—A case study of mandatory bicycle helmet laws, claims participation rates fell by two-thirds between 1986 and 2006.

Monash University Accident Research Centre (MUARC) also found there was an initial reduction in the number of people cycling in Victoria when the legislation was introduced. However, it reported within two years the number of bike riders returned to levels similar to those prior to 1991.

Mr Brennan doesn’t blame the helmet laws for the decline; he attributes the lull to social change. “Instead of kids riding their bikes or walking to school more were being dropped off by parents as more women joined the workforce and we saw the rise of the two-car family,” he says.

Today, cycling participation rates are at an all time high, according the Australian Bureau of Statistics. In 2012, the number of adults who reported cycling was more than 1,365,000—up from 829,600 in 2002.

But Prof Rissel argues the rates would be higher – and therefore more Australians active and healthy – if riders didn’t have the inconvenience of wearing a helmet. “Mandatory helmet laws are a barrier to cycling, particularly spontaneous and short trips,” he says.

Australia’s first bike share scheme, described by VicRoads as helping to promote cycling trips under 10 kilometre around Melbourne, was an example of the helmet laws causing riders to balk at bikes. The slow uptake of the scheme launched in 2010, eventually resulted in the state government introducing a complementary helmet trial in April 2013. Participation rates went up, and now $A5 helmets are available at retail outlets and vending machines around the city.

In Queensland late last year, a parliamentary inquiry recommended helmet law reforms to allow cyclists on share bikes to ride helmet-free. It also submitted giving cyclists the choice to wear a helmet if riding in parks, on shared cycle paths, and roads with a speed limit of 60 km/h or less. While helmet choice campaigners such as Freestyle Cyclists backed the proposals, Scott Emerson, QueenslandTransport Minister, rejected the recommendations. He says the overwhelming scientific evidence supports the effectiveness of helmets in reducing head injuries.

Smash stats

Nationwide, almost a fifth of people seriously injured in land transport crashes are bike riders.

And, what about head injuries? According to 2011 NSW research led by Dr Jake Olivier, the rate of head injuries reduced by almost a third after the laws were introduced. But Prof Rissel criticises the claims saying the results are not warranted because of the limited time period used in the analysis—36 months—and the lack of data beyond a few years before the introduction of the legislation.

“The overall trend in cycling injuries was downwards from the 1980s on, in Australia and globally, and the legislation did little to affect this trend,” he says.

But in another UNSW study, researchers found helmet wearing reduced the risk of severe head injury by 74 per cent. The study assessed the cases of 6745 cyclists involved in collisions with motor vehicles in NSW between 2001 and 2009. The injuries included skull fracture, intracranial injury, concussion and open head wounds.

Dr Steven Pincus, deputy director of the Royal Melbourne Hospital emergency department, says while his hospital does not keep a record, the most common reason for cyclists being admitted is also because of collision with cars. He finds most cyclists wear a helmet, which appears to reduce the severity of their head injuries. “There are a significant number of patients who come in with smashed helmets and intact heads,” he says.

Risky riders

Helmet law skeptics argue being told to wear a helmet for your own protection makes people think cycling is dangerous. “The perception that cycling is not safe is probably the main reason why more people do not cycle,” says Prof Rissel.

At the Velo-city conference, CATALYST’S Mr Ker told delegates that wearing a helmet negatively affects cycling activity by lowering riders’ level of confidence and increasing the feeling of being unsafe when cycling on the road.

“Mandatory helmet laws actually make cycling less safe for those who continue to cycle in three ways,” he says. “Cyclists who wear helmets tend to ride faster in comparable situations, than those who don’t. Motor vehicle drivers pass closer to cyclists wearing helmets than those who are not, and fewer cyclists translates into increased risk through reduction in the safety-in-numbers effect.”

A 2009 report titled Research into Barriers to Cycling in NSW also found ‘the perceived danger of cycling’ to be one of the biggest turn offs.

But those who don’t wear helmets are not exactly helping this argument. Dr Olivier and Professor Raphael Grzebieta’s 2001 to 2009 study also found that bicyclists who do not wear helmets are almost three times as likely to have disobeyed traffic controls as helmeted riders, plus more than four times as likely to ride with a blood alcohol limit above 0.05.

When it comes to where you ride, Prof Rissel told conference delegates some types of cycling carry much greater risks than others. You might consider road racing at high speeds far more dangerous than coasting along a suburban bike path, for example.

(Incidentally, it was the fall and death of professional cyclist Andrei Kivilev in 2003 that promoted the Union Cycliste Internationale (ICU) to implement the compulsory wearing of helmets in all endorsed races. The 29-year-old was racing in the second stage of the Paris-Nice when he collided with a teammate. He was airlifted to Saint-Étienne hospital, where he was diagnosed with a serious skull fracture and two broken ribs. He died of his injuries the next day.)

Or like Ms Clark, you may know if you’re riding a bike, wearing a helmet is just a no brainer. She says

As her helmet saved her on that fateful Saturday morning she was taking a casual spin along a bike path. “I was riding slowly with no other bikes or traffic around when I came off,” says the St Kilda Cycling Club member. “I landed head first, cracked my helmet and truly believe if I wasn’t wearing it I would have fractured my skull.”

Commuters lead the way, teens disobey

Melbourne cyclists—especially commuters—have no qualms about wearing bike helmets.

A 2013 Bicycle Network count of commuter cyclists around Melbourne, shows 99.8 per cent of riders find wearing a helmet normal. “No one thinks about whether it’s a good or bad idea to wear one, whether helmets work or not or if their hair is going to get messed up, it’s become an automatic response,” says Garry Brennan, Bicycle Network general manager, government and external relations.

Even in Denmark where there are no helmet laws Danske Cykelhandlere, the Danish Bike Industry Association, reported in 2010 that helmet use was steadily rising, led by women and children.

The same cannot be said for Australian youth, with a NSW study, The effectiveness of helmets in bicycle collisions with motor vehicles: A case-control study, finding children and teens were far less likely to wear helmets than adults. The research showed, of the 6745 NSW cyclists involved in collisions with motor vehicles between 2001 and 2009, almost 50 per cent of 0 to 19 year olds were not wearing a helmet at the time of their accident, compared with 15 per cent of 30 to 39 year olds.

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Postby il padrone » Wed Sep 10, 2014 3:08 pm

Mr Brennan says the decline of 1990 was all down to "social change" - more women driving to work :roll:

Mighty funny how that 'social change' out in Blackburn all happened in about 3 months right after the law was brought in.

This guy is a toss-pot!!!
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Postby human909 » Wed Sep 10, 2014 3:16 pm

Hehehe....

So much of the article and the Brennen quote were absurd that I just had to quote the whole thing. I especially like the bit about 99.8% Melbourne commuter helmet compliance being evidence of widespread support for MHLs... Meanwhile Kim Jong-un is still enjoying 99.8% support from the North Korean population. :lol: :roll:

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Postby Drizt » Wed Sep 10, 2014 6:53 pm

Any chance of helmet laws changing any time soon? Is the bitching and moaning helping?

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Postby Xplora » Wed Sep 10, 2014 7:29 pm

Drizt wrote:Any chance of helmet laws changing any time soon? Is the bitching and moaning helping?
Not sure, is trolling helping you? :wink:

Can I get a TLDR summary of the article?

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Postby Mulger bill » Wed Sep 10, 2014 7:33 pm

Xplora wrote:Can I get a TLDR summary of the article?
"If you choose to go bareheaded you are a fool and deserve to die. Here's a sample of one anecdote..."
...whatever the road rules, self-preservation is the absolute priority for a cyclist when mixing it with motorised traffic.
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Postby Xplora » Wed Sep 10, 2014 8:34 pm

Mulger bill wrote:
Xplora wrote:Can I get a TLDR summary of the article?
"If you choose to go bareheaded you are a fool and deserve to die. Here's a sample of one anecdote..."
What a deadbeat angle to take. A sizeable portion of the Australian population believes you deserve death for riding a BIKE. Helmet or not. How can a bicycle advocacy group hope to encourage cycling when they want to push a false message of danger? :roll:

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Postby DavidS » Wed Sep 10, 2014 10:49 pm

99.8% of commuters in Melbourne think riding with a helmet is normal. Hey, I think it's normal too because I'm forced to wear one. That is a useless stat, no idea how they collected it (a survey or did they just count the percentage wearing helmets?). Just because I wear a helmet to avoid the fine does not mean I agree with the law, or that I would own a helmet if the law wasn't in place.

As for the drop in head injuries, no mention that the ratio of cyclist head injuries as compared to other cyclist injuries has not changed. Given we must now protect our heads with a helmet but the rest of the body is not protected any more than it has ever been, surely if helmets are effective the ratio of head injuries should have dropped.

Comparing riding a bike for transport to racing at high speed surrounded by 150 other riders just shows how desperate the helmet lobby is. That along with anecdotal and survey evidence is telling: they just don't have anything else because the evidence does not support the laws.

Such a one sided article. All we ask for is choice.

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Postby Xplora » Wed Sep 10, 2014 11:17 pm

You need a helmet when you ride a bike. I saw a bloke in the Tour de France going down a hill at 100kmh once, you'd be nuts to ride a bike without a helmet! :lol:

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Postby Ross » Thu Sep 11, 2014 10:39 am

The Brutal Mechanics of a Bike Crash

http://gizmodo.com/the-mechanics-of-a-b ... 1633062614" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Postby human909 » Thu Sep 11, 2014 11:22 am

Ross wrote:The Brutal Mechanics of a Bike Crash

http://gizmodo.com/the-mechanics-of-a-b ... 1633062614" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
I didn't see much about bike crashes in that link. More about the brutal mechanics of ramming you head against a solid object. No surprises and nothing new there. The thing is that head impacts are extremely rare for a typical cyclist. The cycling population of Holland can attest to that. I personally can attest to that.

Though if YOU are a risky cyclist then go ahead wear one. But why the desire to make the rest of the population wear one?

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Postby macca33 » Thu Sep 11, 2014 11:32 am

Hasn't this dead member of the equine family been well and truly flogged by now???
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Postby human909 » Thu Sep 11, 2014 11:40 am

macca33 wrote:Hasn't this dead member of the equine family been well and truly flogged by now???
Not until cyclist can legally ride bareheaded in this country. It will happen, but likely at a pace of similar lethargy than the rest of our movement toward better treatment of cyclists on our roads.

Speaking of equines. There is no MHL for riding on horses, despite the fact that there is fact bigger risk of falling and from a greater height too.
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Postby Summernight » Thu Sep 11, 2014 1:39 pm

human909 wrote:Speaking of equines. There is no MHL for riding on horses, despite the fact that there is fact bigger risk of falling and from a greater height too.
I'm assuming that there is meant to be a 'no' between 'is' and 'MHL' in your statement (which I have added in the re-quote).

Helmets are required when riding horses out on the road only if you are under 18 (at least in VIC), although there is currently a push in the worldwide equine community by some to make it mandatory (or at least fashionable) to wear one all the time (even when off the horse on the ground around them).

In top level dressage the traditional fashion item to wear on the head is a top hat (it matches the jacket and tails). Some top level riders are trying to change that to helmets. Most of the other disciplines have moved to wearing helmets (Christopher Reeve's (ie. Superman) accident was one of the reasons for the change in showjumping, I believe).

So in most competitions nowadays it is mandatory to wear a helmet (cross country requires a body protector safety vest too - which now come with air-bags). Road riding is a different story and riding on private property usually depends on the property owner's requirements.

I don't know about Western riders - their default is cowboy hats (Stetsons, Akubras and the sort). Might have a bit of an uproar if we tried to force them to wear helmets instead of their beloved Stetson. :P

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Postby human909 » Thu Sep 11, 2014 1:49 pm

:oops: Oops. Yes, my mistype.

Competition is of course something else entirely. Overall MHLs exist in very few activities despite helmets being a good idea in many. But treating my mother riding to the shops in the same manner as a competitive cyclist sprinting to the finish line at 60kph is not really sensible. :wink:

(I made the choice to ride to a party Saturday night without a helmet. When after quite a few shots of high strength liquor I then followed the crowd to another location I reassessed my choice of no helmet and so borrowed one from one of the other cyclists who had scored a ride in a car. The risk had changed.) :wink:

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Postby Xplora » Thu Sep 11, 2014 2:26 pm

You're kidding... horse riders aren't forced to wear a helmet?! My bike doesn't get scared or try and kick me, and is certainly closer to the ground, and manages to go slower quite a bit more.

The parallels just make a mockery of the MHL for bikes. A horse has more in common with a motorbike than a bicycle. Much more in fact. Clearly the horse lobby holds more sway than the bicycle lobby.

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Postby human909 » Thu Sep 11, 2014 3:20 pm

Xplora wrote:Clearly the horse lobby holds more sway than the bicycle lobby.
No. They have just kept a lower profile due to their smaller numbers.

Mandatory helmet laws were introduced primarily by the do-gooder nanny state reactionists. Doctors, surgeons and the "think of the children" crowd. Sure there was some supporters with dubious motivations but realistically it was nanny state attitudes towards others. No different to the call for compulsory life jackets for rock fishing. :roll:

It is sad how obsessed we are about controlling other people's lives in Australia.

Neither helmets nor ropes are mandatory in rock climbing. I'm just happy that this sport stays out of mainstream Australia. We do things that defy normal sanity and every OH&S rule of working at heights. But the reality is that it is safe because (MOST) of us know what we are doing and are very good at it.

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Postby il padrone » Thu Sep 11, 2014 3:33 pm

Bah.... no need for a helmet when riding a horse!


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Postby human909 » Thu Sep 11, 2014 3:35 pm

Last time I went mountain biking my bicycle did that to me! :oops:

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Postby il padrone » Thu Sep 11, 2014 3:38 pm

human909 wrote:(I made the choice to ride to a party Saturday night without a helmet. When after quite a few shots of high strength liquor I then followed the crowd to another location I reassessed my choice of no helmet and so borrowed one from one of the other cyclists who had scored a ride in a car. The risk had changed.) :wink:
Bejeebus! You know what the top-line penalty for riding without a helmet comes in at now? That's the one the magistrate applies after you fail to pay a TIN, repeatedly ride sans lid, or ride DUI ??








$738 (five penalty units) !!

Talk about using sledge hammer to crack a walnut. Those drivers winge about their paltry speeding fines :roll:
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Soooooo much sooking

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