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Re:To Encourage Biking, Cities Lose the Helmets by scotty79 on Monday October 01, 2012 @02:17AM (#4595590)
I don't really get what people have against seat-belts. Apart from "Nobody is going to tell me what I must do in MY car!" and some people thinking that being tossed out of your car is actually preferable scenario in most accidents.

I think there's too little data about road accidents publicly available. I think all documentation from police investigations of road accidents should be anonymized and made public after some time.

Re:To Encourage Biking, Cities Lose the Helmets by reinout on Monday October 01, 2012 @09:08AM (#4596734)
The number of people killed in traffic accidents in the Netherlands has dropped 80% since the 1972 high of 3000+/year. It is now at 640/year.

The main reason being given is seat belts for drivers and helmets for moped users. Info in Dutch from the official statistics bureau: http://www.cbs.nl/nl-NL/menu/themas/gezondheid-welzijn/publi...