Summary of legal status of cycle helmet wearing in the UK, paticularly where contributory negligence is claimed, from "The Cycling Lawyer" Martin Porter.
Updated document for a talk presented to the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers on 28 February 2012.
This article seeks to answer the question whether mandatory bicycle helmet laws deliver a net societal health benefit. The question is addressed using a simple model. The model recognizes a single health benefit – reduced head injuries, and a single health cost – increased morbidity due to foregone exercise from reduced cycling. Using estimates suggested in the literature of the effectiveness of helmets, the health benefits of cycling, head injury rates, and reductions in cycling, leads to the following conclusions.
Dutch National Bicycle Safety Research Agenda – p.1
Electric vehicles: road safety effects for cyclists – p.2
Column “Safety in numbers: more cyclists, lower risks?” – p.3
Cycling fatalities in blind spot crashes – p.4
Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment on bicycle safety – p.5
Infrastructure and bicycle crashes – p.6
Music and phone calls while cycling – p.8
Bicycle helmets: the pros and cons – p.9
From car to bicycle – p.10
Customers arriving by bicycle are far better than their reputation. At first they are more loyal than those who use the car for shopping, and they spend more money. In addition their share in the customer mix far exceeds the shop owners expectations.
To estimate the risks and benefits to health of travel by bicycle, using a bicycle sharing scheme, compared with travel by car in an urban environment.
Design
Health impact assessment study.
Setting
Public bicycle sharing initiative, Bicing, in Barcelona, Spain.
Bloustein School of Planning & Public Policy, Rutgers University
Publication date:
June 2007
Abstract:
This article shows how the Netherlands, Denmark and Germany have made
bicycling a safe, convenient and practical way to get around their cities. The analysis relies on national aggregate data as well as case studies of large and small cities in each country.
