Question 10703 — cycles and motorcycles

Summary

Ms. Cécile Untermaier draws the attention of the Minister, to the Minister of State, Minister for Ecological and Inclusive Transition, responsible for transport, to the compulsory wearing of helmets for cyclists. Indeed, according to article R. 431-1-3 of the Highway Code, only cycle drivers and passengers under the age of twelve are required to wear a helmet. However, a study carried out by two epidemiologists from the University of New South Wales in Australia, bringing together more than 43 scientific studies carried out in recent years on a total of 64,000 cyclists, shows that wearing a helmet while cycling reduces the risk of serious head injury by almost 70%, and that those who wear this type of protection have 65% less risk of having a head injury whose outcome would be fatal. According to this study, published on September 6, 2017 in the International Journal of Epidemiology, the effectiveness of wearing a helmet is no longer in doubt. While a cycling plan is expected at the start of the school year as part of the future mobility orientation law, this would be an opportunity to make wearing a helmet while cycling compulsory. It is in fact just as necessary to encourage the development of cycling as to protect its users. Also, she asks him what measures the Government intends to put in place to protect bicycle users and if he plans to make the wearing of helmets compulsory.

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