Motorcycle Helmet Repeal is Bad Idea
Since I received a flurry of comments on my Motorcycle Helmet Blog of recent, see Nevada Helmet Law Repeal and comments at http://brainandspine.titololawoffice.com/2011/05/articles/brain-injury/nevada-helmet-law-repeal/ , I thought I would forward a tweet by fellow blogger Steve Gursten. Steve is a great Michigan Personal Injury Trial Attorney.
The title of the article EDITORIAL: Helmet law repeal is a horrible idea is http://theoaklandpress.com/articles/2011/06/09/opinion/doc4df0f7e007da2700519623.txt?viewmode=default
Tim
Read the article and again with the " If it's going to cost me money " crap.
First I sent you and third party article from someone who looked at hat the financial cost of what Florida went thru not what AAA of Michigan says might happen.
And they came up that deaths per 100 riders stayed about the same before and after helmet repeal but the money was a huge boast to the economy.
So if the bottom line is the bottom line you should be in favor of repeal.
As stated before it's the insurance companies that don't wants this law to pass because because car/motorcycle accidents almost always is the cars fault and have higher payouts then car/car accidents.
You need to start coming up with something other then " if it cost me money" weak, very weak.
Below is from the Concord Monitor of a friend of mine who died in a bike accident yesterday.....wearing a helmet.
A motorcyclist traveling north on Route 106 in Loudon died yesterday afternoon in a collision with a Honda sedan, the Loudon police said.
The collision occurred at the corner of Staniels Road and Route 106 at 3:40 p.m., said Loudon police Chief Bob Fiske. The motorcyclist was pronounced dead at the scene, and the driver of the car was hospitalized, Fiske said. There were no passengers in the car.
The police did not release the names of the motorcyclist and driver yesterday. Fiske said the police are working to contact their families. Both the driver and the motorcyclist are from Loudon.
The sedan was waiting at a stop sign on Staniels Road and preparing to make a left-hand turn onto Route 106, according to eyewitness accounts and evidence, Fiske said. The motorcycle was traveling on Route 106 behind a third vehicle, which made a right turn onto Staniels Road.
As the third vehicle turned, Fiske said, the motorcycle made a "somewhat evasive" move to the left around it. He said the Honda then began to turn onto Route 106.
The motorcycle hit the left rear quarter of the car, Fiske said. The motorcyclist appeared to have been wearing a helmet, the police said.
The police spoke to five eyewitnesses yesterday afternoon and are working to find the driver of the third vehicle.
The state police traffic accident reconstruction team is also working to calculate how quickly the vehicles were traveling.
Fiske said the investigation into the accident "could take a couple weeks."