§ 52. Mr. Goodhartasked the Secretary of State for Transport what estimate he can make of the number of lives that have been saved and the number of severe injuries sustained since the implementation of legislation requiring motorcyclists to wear crash helmets; and if he will make a statement describing the method used in producing these figures.
§ Mr. HoramWe estimate that a saving of nearly 120 fatal and 80 serious casualties per year can be attributed to the introduction of compulsory wearing of crash helmets. This estimate is necessarily approximate; it is based on a comparison of casualty rates for July to October 1973 with those for the same period of 1972.