Text 4594, 28 rader
Skriven 2005-01-06 08:47:00 av Robert Bashe (2:2448/44)
   Kommentar till text 4572 av David Drummond (3:640/305)
Ärende: Motorcycles
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David Drummond wrote to Robert Bashe on Thursday January 06 2005 at 06:40:

RB>> And of course, there are all sorts of other things used as helmets
RB>> here in Germany, since you're legally required to wear one, but
RB>> nobody says _what_ it must be like. Some people even wear old
RB>> military helmets, which provide practically no protection, but are
RB>> still legal.

DD> The law here not only states that we must wear a helmet, but that the
DD> helmet must sport the appropriate "safety approved" sticker.

Reasonable requirement, if the law itself is to make any sense.

DD> I've heard of the police checking for this sticker when they have
DD> bikes stopped at a roadside check point.

Here they naturally don't. And what really gets me is the fact that although
you are required to wear a helmet of sorts, nothing else is necessary. In
theory, you could wear sandals, shorts and a T-shirt and that would be
perfectly legal if you wore any kind of helmet. But naturally you'd really be
begging for an injury if anything at all went wrong. Thus, the law requiring
helmets seems pretty ridiculous to me... a typical example of how politicians
think.

Cheers, Bob

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