Make legal mandate for all cyclists to wear a helmet when cycling on roads

Rejected 18 signatures

What the petition asks

There were 186k injuries on UK roads in 2015, over 23 thousand of these resulted in death or serious injury. Such injuries are life defining for the cyclist and other road users involved.
Millions is invested in keeping cyclists safe on roads, yet cyclists have no legal obligation to wear a helmet.

Almost three-quarters of fatal crashes (74%) involved a head injury.
Nearly all bicyclists who died (97%) were not wearing a helmet.
Helmet use among those bicyclists with serious injuries was low (13%), but it was even lower among bicyclists killed (3%).f

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

Make it law that all cyclists have to wear helmets.

Timeline

14 Feb 2017	Petition opened for signatures
20 Feb 2017	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 18

Status Rejected

Rejected 20 Feb 2017

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