“New Haven Register” Suggests Broader Helmet Law

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com

An editorial in today’s “New Haven Register” notes that a new study shows that a disproportionate number of deaths involving Connecticut motorcyclists between 2001 and 2007 – more than 65 percent – involved riders who weren’t wearing a helmet. The study also revealed that only 32 percent of riders aged 16 and 17 – who are required by law to wear a helmet – had on headgear when they crashed. “The answer may be to extend the mandatory helmet law to all riders, as in Massachusetts, Vermont and New York,” said the editorial, which can be read in full here.