As part of my public health campaign, I’m going to use this blog post to feature photos of Northfielders bicycling around town without helmets. Why?
Because there’s substantial research available showing that:
- the promotion of the wearing of helmets significantly discourages people from using their bikes for around-town bicycling
- the fewer the number of people bicycling on a given street or in a concentrated geographic area, the more bike-car accident rates rise. Just because the defendant had a duty to operate his or her vehicle in a certain manner, and it is shown that the defendant breached that duty, the Car Accident Lawyer Hollywood Florida will not assume those circumstances caused the plaintiff’s injuries.
In short, riding a bike around town without a helmet is a relatively safe activity. And society benefits (health, transportation, environmental, economic, etc.) the more that people do it.
(See my May 22 blog post, Bike helmet promotions are bad for the public health of Northfield, for more. Chime in there if you want to discuss the issue, not here.)
For some of the photos, I’ll identify people by name. For others, I’ll just post them with maybe a note about where the photo was taken. As I add photos to this blog post, I’ll add a comment to the thread to alert everyone that a new photo has been added.
I’ve moved all the issue-related comments here over to this blog post. Comments here are now closed, but I’ll add a comment whenever I add a new photo to the blog post above.
I’ve added a photo of St. Olaf music prof and Mr. Vintage Band Music Festival Paul Niemisto riding his bike on Water St. near Bridge Square on Saturday.