Bicycle Helmet Usage
Bicycle Helmet Usage Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience that bicycle helmets should be worn when riding a bicycle. Central Idea: Helmets should be worn when riding a bicycle to reduce head injuries and fatalities. ... This head injury could have been prevented if my brother were wearing a helmet. ... Wearing a helmet when cycling and purchasing a properly fitted helmet can accomplish this. We must enforce helmet usage with ourselves and our loved ones to reduce fatalities and head injuries. ... The simple precaution of wearing a helmet has been proven to reduce the risk of head injury by 85%. It has also been shown that child helmet ownership and usage increases with income and educational level of the parents but also decreases with the age of the child. ... , released a survey in 1999 showing that half of all bicyclists never or infrequently wear helmets when they ride for reasons such as, only riding a short distance, forgetting to put the helmet on, or simply not having gotten around to buying one. (Transition: This neglect in helmet usage has forced our government to implement helmet laws to aid in our childrens safety. ... Studies suggest that a bicycle helmet law can significantly increase helmet use among children. Currently fewer than 20 states have a state-wide helmet use law. ... If your city or state does not have a bicycle helmet law, it does not mean that it is safe to ride without a helmet. A study in Florida showed that in counties with a state- helmet use law, 79% of the children wore helmets while riding their bikes.