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Motorcycle Safety

Motorcycle Safety

Reported by: Katie Burcham - WMBD-TV
03/14/2007 04:46pm
WMBD/WYZZ TV - BLOOMINGTON

Long time rider Robert Burton and his wife strap on a helmet every time they board their bikes. But they say just because they decide to does not mean everyone else should follow suit. Burton says, "It's a choice, it should be individual."

But Sergeant Mike Sturgeon disagrees. He says helmets save lives, a fact he has learned while working several motorcycle fatalities in his years with the Illinois State Police. Sturgeon says, "When we see somebody that's not wearing a helmet of course you can't help but reflect on the tragic loss that didn't have to be."

Advocates of a law hope to prevent accident scenes like one in rural Danvers. Tuesday afternoon a motorcyclist who was not wearing a helmet crashed into the path of a van turning left in front of him. It was a tragic accident that resulted in the death of the motorcycle driver.

Denny Turner had worked for 17 years to prevent a helmet law with the motorcycle rights group A.B.A.T.E. He says Tuesday's accident was not an example of how helmets can save lives.

He points out, "The fact is that his right of way was invaded and it shouldn't have happened...Usually about 30 miles an hour in a crash like that, a helmet isn't gonna do you any good."

Turner says a helmet mandate infringes on individual rights. He believes the real danger on the road is not the road itself, but other drivers. He says, "I myself, along with others, are getting very tired of burying our brothers and sisters for people's right to drive stupid."

Re: Motorcycle Safety

I am tired of reading about these brothers and sisters being in accidents, from ROWV's. And all the reports about a band-aid solution for dumb cagers, the helmet.

It is time to make our voices heard on these issues and Distracted Drivers, Inattentive Behaviors, Drowsy Drivers, Cell Phone users by Cagers!!

Reports by the media has to change! Reporters should be reporting Motorcycle Awareness, True Causations, Motorcyclce Safety Courses, and General Public Safety/Education for all who share the roads!!!