Pedal Me bans staff riders from wearing helmets for safety reasons

Re:Pedal Me bans staff riders from wearing helmets for safet... by GekkePrutser on Monday May 23, 2022 @03:53AM (#31476330)

Well, obviously cyclists are more vulnerable. Considering that the numbers are pretty low IMO. The Netherlands have 16 million people, most of which use bicycles for daily travel. 200 died in a year, especially elderly who are exceptionally vulnerable. It's not something that warrants extreme worry. There's always risk in a life.

Also, it's something that is only a risk to the rider themselves so leaving it to their discretion is warranted IMO.

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Re:Pedal Me bans staff riders from wearing helmets for safet... by mcguire on Monday May 23, 2022 @02:31PM (#31483141)

Dividing fatalities by population might be reasonable to look at acceptable death levels; in NL in 2020, that's 229 / 17,440,000 or 1.3 per 100,000. Automotive numbers would be pretty similar.

(Correction: They would not. There were ~610 auto deaths in NL in 2020. That gives 3.5 per 100,000.)

In the US, 2020 had 11.7 automotive deaths per 100,000 people and 0.38 bicycle deaths per 100,000.

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