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Bike Helmet Safety and Bike Helmet Laws for Kids
When teaching your little ones to ride a bike, please don’t forget the importance of the bike helmet. As the teaching adult, you should wear a helmet too. Why should they feel the necessity of wearing a helmet when you don’t?
Even though teens don’t have to wear helmets by law (check out http://www.iihs.org/laws/mapbicyclehelmets.aspx for the law in your state,) they absolutely should.
My kids were never allowed to ride without a helmet at any age, a family rule that caused much fighting during their formative teenage years. My one son was even pulled over by the police on several occassions, and rewarded with a coupon for a free ice cream cone because he was wearing a helmet. How devestating for a 14 year old! His friends didn’t have to wear a helmet and he was mortified to be the only one who did.
Here are a few statistics from the Bicycle Helmet Safety Institute:
The “typical” bicyclist killed on our roads is a sober male over 16 not wearing a helmet riding on a major road between intersections in an urban area on a summer evening when hit by a car.
About 540,000 bicyclists visit emergency rooms with injuries every year. Of those, about 67,000 have head injuries, and 27,000 have injuries serious enough to be hospitalized.
Non-helmeted riders are 14 times more likely to be involved in a fatal crash than helmeted riders.
If your child learns to ride a bike and part of that lesson includes the fact that she must wear a helmet, she will recognize that this is part of bike riding forever. Being cool is not nearly enough of a trade-off compared to the risks of not wearing a helmet.
About the Author
I produced the Romper Room and Friends TV show and Bowling for Dollars when I worked for Claster Television in the ’80′s and ’90′s. With three kids of my own, I stopped working there in 1996. Today I am a freelance writer and preschool teacher and I am in the process of publishing my first book about preschool advice for parents. Check out my blog at www.preschoolteach.blogspot.com Please contact me at: terribakman@gmail.com
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