Helmet Law

Jerry Seinfeld once said, "The stupidest thing is a helmet law, the point of which is to protect a brain that is functioning so poorly it's not even trying to prevent the [cracking:splitting] of the skull it's in." But helmet laws for kids, who may not have considered their skulls as deeply as Jerry did, aren't so dumb. That's [according:regarding] to a new study in a publication from the Chocrane Collaboration, which is an international organization that [evaluates:fascinates] health care research.The review looked at five studies of kids bike-helmet laws. One big 10 year study in California found that bike-related [traumatic:optical] brain injury in kids dropped more than 18 percent after the state's bike helmet law was enacted. A Canadian study looked at almost 10,000 bike related [hospital:school] admissions and found a 45 percent drop in childhood head injuries in provinces that passed helmet laws. Provinces without helmet laws also saw a drop in the same period, but only half as much. And three other studies found that helmet laws do indeed persuade kids to wear their helmets, with [increases:downfall] in compliance ranging from 45 to 84 percent.