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Letter: Motorcyclists unfairly targeted

Tuesday, March 15, 2005 | 9:43 a.m.

Most accidents involving a motorcycle and a car are the fault of the person driving the car, a fact conveniently left out of the pro-helmet-law column on Sunday by Brian Greenspun.

He wrote that helmet laws save lives and taxpayer money. Considering that cars on the road outnumber motorcycles by about 200 to 1, wouldn't we save 200 times as much money and 200 times as many lives if the law forced people in cars to wear helmets? Or is it just that the people in cars are a 200-times-bigger constituency and therefore their liberty not as easily trampled as the much smaller group that rides motorcycles?

Heaven forbid that we crack down on the irresponsible car drivers when it is so much easier to pass helmet laws on the people not at fault for the accidents. Heaven forbid an issue is examined from more than one angle.

JIM BROCIUS

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