Study Says Bike Helmets Don't Make You Safer, More Bicyclists Do
If you want to increase bicycling safety, forget the helmet laws and get more people out there riding. That according to a
new study by researchers at the University of British Columbia evaluating safety outcomes for cyclists across Canadian
provinces and territories.
Study author Kay Teschke and a team of researchers found that areas with helmet laws didn't have less cases of hospitalization for bicycle accidents. But communities where more people bike, whether there is a helmet law or not, DID have less bike accident hospitalizations. The thought process is that these communities have less- or maybe less severe- accidents because they have more bicycling infrastructure.
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If you want to increase bicycling safety, forget the helmet laws and get more people out there riding. That according to a new study by researchers at the University of British Columbia evaluating safety outcomes for cyclists across Canadian
provinces and territories.
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