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Lawyer wants helmets off

By BILL CORBETT

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tested frequently and care- Philips said the province and save lives,” he said.
fally by the

“Last year the law was

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Motorcyclists would be safer

helmet law for about a week

°A motorcyclist can hear

last spring when

the

if they took their helmets
off, lawyer Jim McNency
said Monday as he prepared
for the first step on the road

standing to challenge the
section of the Motor Vehicle
Act that applies to helmets.

If he is allowed to argue
the case in court, McNency
said be will fight to have
public hearings ordered into
the heimet law and helmet
safety.

He said he has statistical
evidence, compiled by two
Cahforma research firms,
showing ridcrs would have
fewer accidents if they
removed their helmets.

Helmets are unsafe, he
said, because they block out
outside sounds and amplify
the motorcycle’s cngine
noses, rendering the mder
almost déaf.

He said less cxpensive
helmets arc not grease
resistant, shaticr on impact
and can cause semous neck
myunes to nders involved in
collisions at specds as low as
7'A miles per hour, he said

“The only changes’ in
helmcts in the last 16 years
have been cosmetic.” said
McNency. who fecls
compulsory have
reduced manufacturers’
incentives to make = thew
helmets safer

But Joho Philips, a motor
velncle branch spokesman in
Victoma, sand McNency’s
charges are unfounded

Phallaps sand Helmets arc

laws

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comphcated.”

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association successfully
challenged the law’s validity
on a technicality. The law
went back mto effect after

Tune-up

rescinded briefly and four
people were killed in one
week because they were not
using helmets.”

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