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LETTERS, Page 6Mandated Cycle Helmets
If more Americans understood the devastating effects of head
injuries, they would not question the need for motorcycle-helmet
laws (LAW, Dec. 19). A head injury can cause irreversible changes
in personality, intellectual capacity and vocational status.
Physical, emotional and behavioral problems are not uncommon. The
effects are frightening to witness and draining for family, friends
and the survivors themselves -- not to mention the financial
strain. Is it really worth that kind of risk to have the feeling
of the wind blowing through your hair?
Tina Giangobbe Rapp
Lyndeborough, N.H.
Arguments made by cyclists for not wearing a helmet often have
to do with their sense of a reduced ability to hear and see. Can't
a clever designer produce a protective helmet with openings on the
sides to improve hearing, as well as slits adjacent to the eyes to
increase the range of vision, that would provide adequate
protection? There could be air channels built in so one could feel
the breeze. Why not redesign the helmet?
Dolores L. Pierson
Santa Fe