[Durham INC] FW: [cwneighbors] Bicycle Helmet Requirement

[Pat Carstensen]

A useful reminder from our list-serve.  Regards, pat

To: RickFahrer at aol.com
From: RickFahrer at aol.com
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 22:27:35 -0400
Subject: [cwneighbors] Bicycle Helmet Requirement










        

















Now that the last snow is only a memory and warm weather is 
upon us, your children are back on our streets riding their bicycles.  
Unfortunately, I am seeing some who are riding without a helmet.  North 
Carolina law dictates that anyone under the age of 16 MUST have a bike helmet on 
when riding on public streets or paths.  It is the responsibility of the 
parents or guardians to insure compliance.  Citations, when issued, will go 
to them and not to the children.
 
This law is intended to help prevent serious head 
injuries.  I asked our neighbor Wes Wallace, who is a doctor in the UNC 
Emergency Room, to comment on this.  Here is what he would like you to 
know.  
"We're very good at fixing lots of injuries, but we're not 
very good at fixing brain injuries.  Almost no accident affects one's 
future more profoundly than a serious head injury.  Alarmingly, these 
injuries sometimes occur during what appear to be trivial accidents.  The 
critical factor affecting outcome is not repair, but prevention.  For bike 
riders, this means wearing a helmet."
 
The text of the law is as follows:
NCGS 20‑171.9-Requirements for 
helmet use
With regard to any bicycle used on a public roadway, public bicycle path, 
or other public right‑of‑way:
“It shall be unlawful for any parent or 
legal guardian of a person below the age of 16 to knowingly permit that person 
to operate or be a passenger on a bicycle unless at all times when the person is 
so engaged he or she wears a protective bicycle helmet of good fit fastened 
securely upon the head with the straps of the helmet.”
 
So please instruct your children 
as to the need to wear their helmet when riding.  Feel free to pass this 
email on to anyone you think might benefit.  Please contact me if I can 
answer any questions you might have.  Thanks.
 
Rick Fahrer
Chapel Hill Police 
Dept.








    
    






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