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- From: davevh@microsoft.com (Dave Van Horn)
- Subject: Re: Freedom, Social Responsibility, Individual Responsibility
- Message-ID: <1992Dec26.080058.13911@microsoft.com>
- Date: 26 Dec 92 08:00:58 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
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- Scott Linn writes:
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- >: On the other hand bicycling is one of the statistically most dangerous
- >: activities (right up there with snowmobiling).
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- 'Fraid not. For adult cyclists, accidents and deaths per mile are about the
- same as for driving a car (NHTSA figures). On a deaths per hour of
- participation basis, bicycling even without a helmet is statistically far
- safer than, eg, rock climbing and hang gliding. So if helmetless biking is
- too dangerous to be legal, shouldn't rock climbing and hang gliding also
- be illegal?
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