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Debate over bike helmets is revived
Study will track bike injuries, with a City Council vote likely next year.
By Sarah Coppola
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
The debate over whether to require Austin bicyclists to wear helmets just got some fresh traction.
Mayor Will Wynn and local medical leaders announced today that Brackenridge Hospital and St. David's HealthCare will do a yearlong study on head injuries from bike accidents starting Nov. 1.
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They'll report the findings to the City Council, which considered an ordinance to require bike-helmet use in August but never voted on it. The proposal faced staunch opposition from some cyclists.
"The debate became too emotionally charged to be productive," said former Austin Mayor Bruce Todd, who has fought to require helmets since a helmet saved his life during a November 2005 bike crash.
Todd said he wants to put the debate back into the realm of concrete statistics and data.
At no cost to the city, the hospitals will track the rehabilitation time and cost of care for helmet-wearing and non-helmet-wearing cyclists 18 and older who are involved in accidents.
Dr. Pat Crocker, chief of emergency medicine at Brackenridge, said he expects the results to show that helmets are a must because they save lives and save taxpayers' money on health-care costs.
"I think the data will be sobering," he said.
Wynn and Council Member Betty Dunkerley, who have supported requiring helmets, said they anticipate the council will vote on it once the study is completed.
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hey cant you get your head split open doing a pub crawl on a bike??..i have weird blurry memories of flying over handlebars...ha..but i have seen german kids who were to drunk to walk ride around on giant black anarchy bikes without a care in the world!!
