Posted on 11/16/2010 3:37:26 PM PST by WOBBLY BOB
Washington (CNN) -- The National Transportation Safety Board Tuesday called on states to require all motorcycle riders wear helmets.
The announcement, made at a news conference in Washington, is part of the NTSB's "Most Wanted List of Transportation Safety" -- an initiative directed at state governments.
The board added motorcycle safety to the list this year and dropped recreational boating safety -- an area it said improvements have been made.
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Sure let’s Drug test the NTSB.
If it isn’t interstate, it’s none of their business.
pingo
>>Head injury is the leading cause of death in motorcycle crashes, the Department of Transportation said.<<
Deaths are cheaper than injuries, and they tend to invoke Darwin’s law. In a free country, people are free to make wrong choices.
They’ll just use their big ‘national highway funding’ stick
to beat any opposition into submission.
IBTSDCR
I have been saying,it is only a matter of time before we will have to wear protective helmets, while driving our cars.
I’d also recommend seat belts, side impact air bags, roll bars, crumple zones, 5 mph impact bumpers...
“DONOR CYCLE!!!”
The gubbermint is there to protect me against myself and make sure I have a “social net” to fall back on. It’s in the Constitution, didn’t you know that?
Maybe we should dissolve the NTSB.
I’m from the NBWCOS (National Bubble Wrap Council on Safety) and I call on all States to require everyone be wrapped in bubble wrap. Peoples failure to wrap themselves in bubble wrap has resulted in thousands of deaths each year.
And a HANS device also.
Dang you’re good!
Perhaps we should provide protective body armor for our unborn children. There seems to be a significant amount of deaths in the womb or during attempts to exit therefrom.
What ever happened to “My body, my choice”?
stylish and effective
FUNTSB.
I can see making goggles mandatory as there are bugs, sand, grit, etc that can interfere with someone’s ability to drive safely.
But I think people should have the freedom to be dumb and fatally bash their brains into a support pillar on an interstate overpass if they want to.
I also think seat belt laws are dumb on that same line of reasoning.
Any of these new “safety” laws have turned from the best of intentions into revenue generation instruments that are routinely abused because they can be abused in that way.
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