Help duty for cyclists demanded: there is a better alternative?

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Help duty for cyclists demanded: there is a better alternative?

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dpa / ralf hirschberger / dpa central picture / dpa Do we need a helmet? Many, but not all cyclists have long been wearing a helmet.

Whoever gets caught in Australia without helmet on the bike, can count on several hundred dollars punishment. In Germany "we allow everyone to endanger themselves" how a top traffic jurist says.

A four-year girl practices cycling under the supervision of his parents. It loses the balance, falls, his head beats on the curb. The girl dies.

This sad story occurred more than 30 years ago in a town in the Ruhr area, bicycle helmets were not there. Today you know: helmets save life. Of the 6- to 10-year-olds, 72 percent helmet – by adults, in 2019, only about 20 percent protected. Do we need a helmet?

No, says Ansgar Staudinger, the president of the German Traffic Court of Transport in Goslar, talking to the German Press Agency. The Professor of Law is currently still against a statutory anchorage in the Road Traffic Code – to counteract the trend to cycling, as he says.

"We allow everyone to endanger themselves"

"We allow everyone to endanger themselves," says Staudinger. This results from the free development of the personality enshrined in the Basic Law. There would be valid reasons for the state to intervene. Different in Australia: The state writes the people to protect themselves. Who gets caught without helmet on the wheel, must expect several hundred dollars punishment.

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DPA / Julian Stratenschulte / DpaPild A cyclist drives over a street with a marker for bicycles.

In Germany, an intervention in the right to personality would have to be relatively right, says the lawyer Staudinger. There are still mileste funds than a fine-assured bicycle helmet – "for example, for example, infocoma campaigns and well-thought-out promotions of the state".

The Campaign of the Federal Ministry of Transport, in the half-naked models in bed wore a bicycle helmet, had been a "pipe talker", finds Staudinger. "You have also managed that on ski slopes no one finds a helmet uncool."

Highway: With more than 130 m / h complementary debt in the accident

The debate is emotionalized similar to the speed limit on highways. After all, the directional speed of 130 km / h leads to the fact that motorists automatically get a complicity on the crash in case accidents with higher speed in court. Bicyclists, however, have nothing to fear without helmet.

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That the German state can also be earned for its own protection, shows the pitch in the car. The was in 1976 on front seats to the law. "True," says Siegfried Brockmann, head of the accident research of insurers. The belt duty has saved more than 1500 lives in the first year. Only the number of bicycle dots but far lower than those of the victims of car accidents: 400 wheel accidents per year went deadly. But: If everyone is a helmet, there could be an estimated 100 survival.

Even if a helmet requirement would be compatible with the Basic Law, "we did not have the police capacities to control," argues Brockmann. In addition, it should be clear what is considered a helmet and what not. In Berlin, a case landed in court in which a scooter driver carried a turban instead of a helmet.

Help might could be indirect

Courts could also move people without a legal obligation to wear a helmet, Jura Professor Staudinger is convinced. How to go? By getting cyclists after an accident in court – similar to the directional speed on the highway.

So the court could say about a 70-year-old, who is approached with his e-bike from a car and hurt themselves at the head, say, "You could have helped helmet."As a result, the cyclist could not claim 100 percent damages for his injuries, but less. When assessing the participatory negotiation, the helmet wearing should be considered, calls Staudinger. That would be a learning effect for the people.

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Above all, skiers from the accident of the former Formula 1 star Michael Schumacher. However, absolute protection can not offer a helmet: the dangerous is not a possible skull fracture, says Unfallexperte Brockmann – but the acceleration of the brain in its fluid and the crushes caused by the impact on the skull, brain bleeding and swelling.

Up to 25 km / h the helmet protects very well

The helmet only turn up to a certain speed, says Brockmann. "Up to 25 km / h is a helmet a good protection."Since most accidents happened in the city while turning, cars and cyclists most remained under this speed.

A possible bicycle helmet duty is also a discussion topic in the traditional German Transportation Day in Goslar (28./ 29. January), the pandemie ended this year smaller. For the official opening of the congress of lawyers and transport experts on Friday morning, in addition to Staudinger also speaks Niedersachsen Economic Minister Bernd Althusmann (CDU), the plenary lecture "Artificial intelligence in judiciary and mobility" holds Paul Nemitz, Chief Advisor of the EU Commission in Brussels.

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15 thoughts on “Help duty for cyclists demanded: there is a better alternative?”

  1. Statistics: Then almost everything is dangerous
    If you are analyzing the last 30 years, you will find hundreds of this kind of accidents. … This is trailing together with the population of 83 million people. There are also children, adolescents and adults, who are simply stumbled when walking over their own feet and then they have fallen extremely unhappy. Good, with a motorcycle equipment consisting of pants, boots, jacket with sewn protectors, helmet and gloves would have been previously prevented. Should we walk around in the future; or should we better crawl on the floor to reduce the possible drop height? Also stairs and ladders should be banned.

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  2. … but strap …
    Also there would have to be valid "We allow everyone to endanger themselves" … But it does not do it; So this can not be any argument against helmet duty in cyclists.

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  3. Yes, …
    … The belt mutually has no one off to drive car. The bicycle helmet Liability, on the other hand, could be quasi to "Bicycle ban" for not only many women! Our policy Moeche nunally the corrugator does not greatly harness. And laminates that "Voluntariness" and advanced "Health" : Then may drive less bike

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  4. Most accidents happen where?
    Right, in the household. So: helmet requirement as soon as you leave the bed. Now seriously: There is an alternative for cyclists and pedestrians, but unfortunately is uncool and boring. 1. Carefully drive and 2. Do not exist on his right and in case of doubt. This is always true, only sometimes I have the impression that militant cyclists and pedestrians are looking for the kick. Since a car, the white taillights light up and yet a pedestrian still has to drive quickly at a distance of 20 cm.

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  5. That’s why …
    -Since a car, the white taillights light up and yet a pedestrian still has to drive quickly at a distance of 20 cm.- … (OK, not today only therefore) should basically affect every footgaenger a kind of walking stick: stable, best unbreakable. To quickly attention, in this case, to generate! I have one of these "Self-protection umbrellas", funzt!

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  6. If I want to endanger myself
    is that my problem and goes nothing to the state and also the general public. Sorry I do not understand why so many people want to tell you about unsuspecting politicians as they should live. And there is only one thing in life which is absolutely safe and that is the fact that we will all die.

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  7. Then you have to ….
    -If I want to endanger myself, that’s my problem and goes nothing to the state and also the general public.- … but also insist that not the general public overhears your health cost. And your employer then no salary continued payment! and, they have caused this?

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  8. We do not allow everyone!
    The professor is mistaken-every motorcyclist must wear a helmet, from the small 25cc scooter to the 1200cc racing planer, every motorist has to buckle, even every co-instigation is forced. A construction worker must bear his helmet to protect SiC from falling objects etc. So the good man tells quite nonsense. Cyclists enjoy privileges that are abolished – especially the world improvers with their rambof habits must be protected, in front of themselves. Juicy fines have to be!

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  9. Mr. Brueckner, ….
    … These are exceptions because in the old vehicles are difficult to accommodate real straps. But 6 point straps would be determined. Without showing the look too much. Should we use ourselves for it?

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  10. The idea with the helmet
    Coming again and again. But that is never demanded by cycling associations but by the Autolobby. One could therefore mean, drivers are concerned about the cyclist. In road traffic, however, is then taught quickly from the opposite. So why the helmet? Because you know that, which is dad cycling unattractive and get less on dad wheel rise. The Autolobby believes so to get lost space (bicycle strips, popup pathways).

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  11. Mr. Pikal, ….
    … they are not a woman! Mrs. Mueller, however, is one. And how almost every woman would not drive her short of Bazecker, she had to ruin her hairstyle for that! She knows what she’s talking about "Because you know that, which is dad cycling unattractive and get less on dad wheel rise"!

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  12. The text says,
    -That in Australia’s helmet duty. It is not that the cycling traffic has fallen by 30%. – That most wheel accidents happen when turning. It is not that depending on turning vehicles are meant to drive cyclists across the pile. Of course, I’m wearing a helmet while driving in the city. Everything else is insane in this car traffic. You are welcome to do that to the law. Maybe even speed limits is 100 km / h on the highway. I sat much hope for the next choice. With the Greens in the government there will be no helmet dill, but certainly less space for car traffic. And that’s good.

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  13. The comparison with exceeding the …..
    …Direction speed lags huge. Who drives very fast, caused for others a particularly high risk of danger. Therefore, it is appropriate that it also comes up for damages resulting. Who does not carry a helmet, which causes no higher risk of danger to others. Who drives a 2.5-tonner SUV, which also sits in it. Should a small car driving for its damage itself, if he is driven by a SUV driver to the cripple? Because he had also sat in a heavy SUV, he would not be seriously injured.

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  14. What’s next?
    Of course you can drive the head on the bike.But can also fall during running or out of bed.Personally, I have been cycling for more than 55 years and have never encountered my head. Somewhere, the regulatory reverberation of our politicians should have their limits.

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  15. So
    Actually, all should carry a helmet everywhere, protects in accidents and maybe before regulatory delusions. Best an alarm. People, goes to the Netherlands, just laugh about such nonsense.

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