This morning’s Washington Post reports that organized bicycling enthusiasts in Maryland, though a very safety-oriented bunch, are mostly not supporting a bill in the state House of Delegates filed by Del. Maggie McIntosh (D-Baltimore) that would make helmet use mandatory for riders:
“We feel that everyone should wear a helmet,” said Carol Silldorff, executive director of the nonprofit group Bike Maryland. “We don’t feel that it should be necessarily the law that you have to wear a helmet.”
Shane Farthing, executive director of the Washington Area Bicyclist Association, is quoted similarly: “we are fully supportive of the use of helmets and encourage everyone who rides a bike to use one,” he said. “We’re just not convinced that a mandatory helmet law is going to improve safety.”
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