Petition Make it a legal requirement that a safety helmet must be worn at all times when operating a bike on a road.

More details

What cost would you put on a life compared to the cost of a helmet?

For too long a large proportion of cyclists have been allowed to operate a bike without a safety helmet and this must be stopped.

STATISTICS AND FACTS:
Cyclist Casualties, 2011
Killed: 107
Seriously Injured: 3,085
Slightly Injured: 16,023
Total: 19,215

Bicycle helmets can reduce the risk of head injury by as much as 85%.
Bicycle helmets can reduce the risk of brain injury by as much as 88%.
It is estimated that 75% of bicycle-related deaths among children could be prevented with a bicycle helmet.

WHAT I RECOMMEND SHOULD HAPPEN:
I recommend that the government issue a heavy fine if a cyclist is caught not wearing a helmet. If the cyclist is under 16 then the parent should pay a greater fine or if the issue happens again court action.

Thank you for reading this e-petition and I urge you to share this petition.

Thanks

This petition is closed This petition ran for 6 months

39 signatures

Progress of the petition towards its next target: 39 of 10,000 signatures required to get a government response

Show on a map the geographical breakdown of signatures by constituency

10,000 signatures required to get a government response

Date closed 7 August 2014
Get petition data (json format)

About petition data

The data shows the number of people who have signed the petition by country as well as in the constituency of each Member of Parliament. This data is available for all petitions on the site. It is not a list of people who have signed the petition. The only name that is shared on the site is that of the petition creator.