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Comment by dahart

> it isn’t really a problem

Two hundred deaths a year and more than ten thousand injuries for bicyclists in the Netherlands... Not going to debate whether it’s a “problem”, only assert that the belief that helmets aren’t necessary is causing some unnecessary loss of life. A few of those people in the Netherlands know that even with their well designed infrastructure and slow biking speeds, as many as 80-90 Nederlanders are dying unnecessarily every year and would live if they’d only wear helmets...

https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2019/03/top-hat-bike-helmets-w...

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=nl&tl=en&u=htt...

parent dahart 7 years ago

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