Wow hasn’t the electric bike been taken up so readily by people. It’s a great invention and is a directional change that is here to stay. However, why are governments so slow to catch up with this change that has seen many people injured and killed?
Okay, it may be hard to catch up with the horse after it has bolted, but the police are to blame for not going for the obvious unchanged law – wear a helmet or be fined!
Byron Bay, for years, led the way in ‘not wearing helmets’ and the local police failed to apply a basic safety law.
We have to wear seatbelts, whether you’re a local, a domestic visitor or an overseas tourist.
Adults should be setting an example and wear bike helmets, parents should be insisting their precious children wear them, and kids riding on the road should show responsibility and commonsense and wear helmets.
So, let’s see our police do their job now and enforce helmet-wearing, then when governments get their act together the police can also sort out correct e-bike usage.
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