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The Helmet Update

Volume 23, #4 - August 3, 200

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NHTSA has published a large helmet law study

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has just put up on its website a new 219 page study of bicycle helmet laws.

The study was done by independent researcher Carol Stroebel. She examined six communities where helmet laws of various kinds had been passed, including one where it was subsequently repealed. The study analyzes the findings in twenty pithy pages titled Analysis, providing acres of detail if you need it. Some of the themes that emerge: To increase the effectiveness of the laws the study suggests: Here is the study on our server. We don't find it on the NHTSA server any more. We are including it now on our Toolkit CD.


The Helmet Update - Bicycle Helmet Safety Institute
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