EDITOR,
It has always distressed me to see families biking around with everyone helmetted except dad. How will the kids learn to wear their helmets if dad doesn't? But now, even more distressing, it is the young moms biking around without helmets! The kids in the trailer or on the back have theirs on, but not mom.
Apparently these parents would feel horrible if something happened and the kids weren't protected but if mom or dad should die or be disabled, that would be OK. And, dad, mom, if you think it can't happen to you, think again. You should have grown out of that idea with your teens.
Reality check please.
Province writer Tess Zevenbergen, a GranFondo participant who had a bad fall sustaining facial injuries, blacking out and cracking her helmet, says, "Not wearing a helmet no matter what the distance is not worth the risk."
Bike shops should display posters, like warnings on cigarette packages, showing intubated coma patients and wheelchair-bound disabled persons, just to make the point. A head injury is not a bump on the head. It is a dramatic lifestyle change.
Please, wear your helmet. I know you have one. And do it up.
Dorte Froslev
Active Senior
Brackendale
