HC Deb 16 March 1979 vol 964 c390W
Mr. Wiggin

asked the Secretary of State for Transport what number of motor cyclists' lives he estimates were saved in the year by their crash helmets.

Mr. Horam

We estimate that a saving of nearly 120 fatal and 80 serious casualties per year can be attributed to the introduction of a 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.

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