Summary
BORIS Johnson is right to make his own decision about when to wear a bike helmet and when to freely display his blond mop. The evidence on the benefits of helmet wearing is far from clear.
Cycling is not a hazardous activity: fatal injuries occur, on average, once every 20 million miles about the same rate as for pedestrians. In Holland and Denmark, where hardly any cyclists wear helmets (or Lycra), injury rates are much lower than in the UK. In London, increased helmet wearing has made no detectable difference to fatality rates.See the full content of this document
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Boris Doesn't Need a Helmet
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