randya
10-12-09, 11:16 PM
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/crime/stories/101009dnmetbikehelmet.3cba3ef.html
Advocacy & Safety - Dallas Texas Steps Up Enforcement of 1996 Mandatory Helmet Law
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moleman76
10-13-09, 12:33 AM
of course, those bike-riders-without-helmets just attract hit-and-run motorists like flies ...
Here's hoping that there is some attention paid to motor vehicle-bicycle collisions, too.
Here's hoping that there is some attention paid to motor vehicle-bicycle collisions, too.
Ajenkins
10-13-09, 03:06 AM
Good grief.
Texas lost it's only resident with more than two brain cells when Molly Ivins died.
Last time I was in Dallas, it was full of empty office towers and trying desperately not to look like a zombie city. So, of course the smart thing to do was start ticketing cyclists.
Texas lost it's only resident with more than two brain cells when Molly Ivins died.
Last time I was in Dallas, it was full of empty office towers and trying desperately not to look like a zombie city. So, of course the smart thing to do was start ticketing cyclists.
atbman
10-13-09, 03:28 PM
Curious that the police spokesman believed that the city hospitals were full of cyclists who had had accidents while not wearing helmets.
Yeah, right
Yeah, right
cofgrn
10-13-09, 03:48 PM
One wonders what the real motivation is here to resume enforcement of the statute. In the context of the article, it seems like it might not be rider safety, but to provide a pretext for cops shaking people down. Now if I have crack on me I have to wear a helmet to avoid this?
randya
10-13-09, 04:58 PM
maybe the motorists were complaining about too many cyclists on the streets
Digital_Cowboy
10-13-09, 05:09 PM
One wonders what the real motivation is here to resume enforcement of the statute. In the context of the article, it seems like it might not be rider safety, but to provide a pretext for cops shaking people down. Now if I have crack on me I have to wear a helmet to avoid this?
Sadly, from reading the article it sure does sound like that, doesn't it. It doesn't sound that different from the two Tampa cops who stopped a minor on his bicycle just to "ask" him some questions simply because he was on the trial in a "bad part" of town. Forgetting that because he was a minor that they legally couldn't stop and question him without his parents nor search him which they did and found some pot and a pipe. Which were thrown out because the stop and search were illegal. Had they gone by the book then they wouldn't have lost their evidence.
Sadly, from reading the article it sure does sound like that, doesn't it. It doesn't sound that different from the two Tampa cops who stopped a minor on his bicycle just to "ask" him some questions simply because he was on the trial in a "bad part" of town. Forgetting that because he was a minor that they legally couldn't stop and question him without his parents nor search him which they did and found some pot and a pipe. Which were thrown out because the stop and search were illegal. Had they gone by the book then they wouldn't have lost their evidence.