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darrenleroy wrote:

Sad to see a number of cyclists in the Macron visit to Copenhagen wearing helmets seems to have increased. Is this just an aberration of the video or are more wearing them now then a few years ago?
In a TedX talk in 2016 Michael Colville-Andersen explained (in pretty robust language) how manufacturers have helmets to sell so ramped up 'project fear' to increase sales in Denmark. The result was an increase in helmet sales but a significant drop in people cycling. If this correlation is correct that is a pretty depressing way to do things.

Danish government and indeed the EU road safety commission have been pushing to increase helmet wearing as the solution to cycling injuries/deaths. The EU 'safety' commission even use Denmark and Netherlands in a disgusting slant of stats to 'prove' cycling was more dangerous than the UK by using deaths per million population and thus making the case that that was due to low helmet use and that the obvious answer was to encourage more helmet wearing.

It's a fucking disgrace how this supposed 'safety' commission can use these facts to massively distort the truth and to be allowed to push the problem/onus of safety back onto the vulnerable. it's like they have some sort of an agenda and utterly ignored the fact that cycling in DK and NL massively exceeds that in the UK and other countries. Helmet wearing in places like Germany is huge and yet they have 400 cycling deaths a year, despite the larger population their miles travelled is still much less than NL as a total.

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