Make Motorcycle Riders Wear Helmets

Connecticut watching another summer severe and fatal motorcycle accidents.From July 29 to 24 August motorcyclists died in accidents in Wilton,Meriden,Westbrook, Berlin and Mansfield.Riders injured in various accidents in New Hartford,Waterbury and elsewhere.

This followed a series of accidents this month,including one in Eastford includes three motorcycles,in which a man died and two others were wounded.The carnage continued this past weekend.On Friday evening a Hartmann died after the motorcycle he rides on the I-84 in East Hartford hit a guardrail.On Saturday,a man of Glastonbury was killed in a motorcycle accident in the Portland State Forest Meshomasic section.Can anything be done to reduce damage? In a word, yes.

The General Assembly may require wearing a helmet adult motorcyclists,something sensible pilots make their own accord.Motorcycling is dangerous,more dangerous than driving a car.Helmets save lives and reduce injuries.The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that driver wore helmets are three times less likely to suffer a brain trauma that without them,and reduce their risk of dying in a crash by 37 percent.

Connecticut once had a law requiring all motorcyclists to wear helmets approved,but was abolished in 1977,and many failed attempts to revive.The state has a role to wear a helmet Drivers under 18 are required to wear helmets,as with motorcycle licenses rather than licenses.Connecticut is one of 28 states with partial laws.Seventeen states, including Massachusetts, New York and New Jersey that all motorcyclists to wear a helmet.

You also have.Connecticut has begun to address the safety of the motorcycle. A law that took effect in 2011 requires the license applicant that a motorcycle safety class.Passed a law this year three self-wheeled vehicles in the definition of a motorcycle,which means that drivers have to be licensed and take a safety class.A logical next step would be to require helmets .This is a common sense response to a serious public health problem.And while we're at it,an analysis of the excessive noise of motorcycles would be fine.