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- From: egreen@east.sun.com (Ed Green - Pixel Cruncher)
- Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
- Subject: Re: HELMETS
- Date: 19 Nov 1992 18:55:49 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems, RTP, NC
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- In article uoVguB1w165w@ziggys.cts.com, cobra@ziggys.cts.com 619/262-6384 (Ron Lee) writes:
- >
- >The problem seems to be that the Insurance Lobbies have finally passed
- >this law when it really wasn't necessary to make it a state legal issue.
- >The insurance companies could easily have resolve WITHIN their industry
- >that people who don't wear helmets pay a higher premium; or that people
- >who get caught in an accident without a helmet don't get their
- >settlements, or get lower settlements.
-
- Sure, *IF* that was their motivation.
-
- The insurance industry doesn't care much about motorcyclists
- themselves, for the same reason EPA doesn't, we're noise to them. The
- insurance industry *is* aware that in >75% of automobile-motorcycle
- accidents, the automobile is determined to be at fault. They are aware
- of payments made on *automobile* insurance policies to injured
- motorcyclists. They are also aware of the *fact* that in every state
- that has instituted helmet laws, the number of motorcycles on the road
- has decreased.
-
- Draw your own conclusions as to why they push so hard for helmet laws,
- but I for one do not believe it is because of the cost to them of
- unhelmeted injured motorcyclists.
-
- ---
- Ed Green, former Ninjaite |I was drinking last night with a biker,
- Ed.Green@East.Sun.COM |and I showed him a picture of you. I said,
- DoD #0111 (919)460-8302 |"Go on, get to know her, you'll like her!"
- (The Grateful Dead) --> |It seemed like the least I could do...
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