CfSC Policy: Bicycle helmets

Citizens for Safe Cycling believes that the vast majority of cycling accidents result from the improper road behaviour and deficient skills of the parties involved. The wearing of a properly designed cycling helmet can offer significant protection against head injuries. Citizens for Safe Cycling therefore recommends that approved helmets be worn by all cyclists.

CfSC does not support mandatory helmet use because this would serve to reinforce the current public misconception that wearing a helmet is the only way of preventing cycling injuries, and would divert effort from the more important factors of education and on-road behaviour.

The use of helmets will not reduce either the incidence of cycling accidents or the many injuries to other parts of the body. The best way to reduce all types of injuries is to reduce accidents. This can most effectively be achieved by proper education of cyclists, and other road users, in the safe use of bicycles on the roads.

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Approved by the CfSC Board, July 1991

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