Crash Helmets for Motor-cycle Riders
SUPPORT POR CORONER The suggestion advanced by Mr. F. K. Hunt, coroner at Auckland that motorcyclists should wear crash helmets received support when the matter .was mentioned to a dealer in Palmerston North yesterday. He agreed that the ordinary form of head wear adopted ov riders of motor-cycles afforded no protection if they landed on their fiends in au accident. What vr:u roquired was something different from tho helmets used in racing which would nevertheless provide a reasonable amount of protection in an emergency and not be clumsy to use. In Mr. Hunt's viow 50 por cent, of the young men who had died because of injuries they received when thrown from cycles would be alivo to-day if they had worn helmets that would give protection to the head.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 153, 1 July 1938, Page 7
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