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A 2010 study from the University of New South Wales concluded that helmet laws led to a 29% reduction in cycling related head injuries over and above the effects of reduced cycling.<ref>The impact of compulsory cycle helmet legislation on cyclist head injuries in New South Wales, Australia http://www.bv.com.au/file/file/Bike%20Helmets%20UNSW.pdf bv.com.au</ref> A subsequent paper argues that its conclusions were invalid.<ref>[http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001457511003228 Chris Rissel. The impact of compulsory cycle helmet legislation on cyclist head injuries in New South Wales, Australia: A rejoinder. Accid Anal Prev. 2012]</ref>
A 2010 study from the University of New South Wales concluded that helmet laws led to a 29% reduction in cycling related head injuries over and above the effects of reduced cycling.<ref>The impact of compulsory cycle helmet legislation on cyclist head injuries in New South Wales, Australia http://www.bv.com.au/file/file/Bike%20Helmets%20UNSW.pdf bv.com.au</ref> A subsequent paper argues that its conclusions were invalid.<ref>[http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001457511003228 Chris Rissel. The impact of compulsory cycle helmet legislation on cyclist head injuries in New South Wales, Australia: A rejoinder. Accid Anal Prev. 2012]</ref>

A study conducted in 2012 by the University of New South Wales found cyclist arm injuries had increased by 145 percent in NSW from 1991 to 2010 which reflected the increase in population and in cycling rates. In the same time head injuries only increased by 20 percent which the study claimed reflected the effectiveness of helmets in preventing head injuries <ref>http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/bike-helmet-critics-not-using-their-heads-20121003-26yvc.html</ref>


===Cyclists hospitalized with different types of injury; comparing reported rates of helmet use===
===Cyclists hospitalized with different types of injury; comparing reported rates of helmet use===

Revision as of 01:25, 15 December 2012

Cyclists wearing helmets on a street in Melbourne, during a climate protest event

Between 1990 and 1992, Australian states introduced laws requiring people riding bicycles to wear bicycle helmets. The current legally required standard for a bicycle helmet is AS/NZS 2063.[1] The law is laid out in Part 15 of the Australian Road Rules, approved by the Australian Transport Council. It specifies that "The rider of a bicycle must wear an approved bicycle helmet securely fitted and fastened on the rider’s head, unless the rider is exempt from wearing a bicycle helmet under another law of this jurisdiction." The law also requires helmet use by certain bicycle passengers.[2] The punishment for riding without a helmet is an on-the-spot fine with the amount varying from state to state. Currently the state of Victoria has the harshest penalty with a fine of $176[3]

Australia was the first country to do this, and much of the evidence on the effects of mass helmet use comes from Australia.[4] Debate continues, without consensus, on the results of helmet compulsion.

History

Modern varieties of bicycle helmet first became commercially successful from 1975.[5] Industry helmet standards were developed from the 1970s[6] and are still under development.[7][8] Empirical studies on the effects of helmets were published from the late 1980s.

The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) played a leading role in gaining public awareness, acceptance, and demand for helmet compulsion after a commissioned study showed "bicyclist casualties sustained head injuries three times more frequently than motorcyclist casualties". The RACS had been influential in bringing compulsory seat belts and motorcycle helmets and was urging for a bicycle helmet law as the "third major step"[9] Its spokesman in 1978 said to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Road Safety : "We could perhaps worry a little less about and take a little less time in proving what is precisely right according to all standards … As doctors we are impatient. We cannot wait for 2 or 3 years’ evaluation."[10] The Committee recommended that "cyclists be advised of the safety benefits of protective helmets and the possibility of requiring cyclists to wear helmets be kept under review".[11]

The 1978 inquiry issued a final report in 1985. It recommended that cooperation of states and territories should be sought to "review the benefits of bicycle helmet wearing … and unless there are persuasive arguments to the contrary introduce compulsory wearing of helmets by cyclists on roads and other public places". A federal parliament committee was set up in 1985. Early in the course of its inquiry (before it had reviewed all the evidence), it said: "It is, of course, this Committee’s belief that all cyclists should wear a helmet to increase cycling safety." [12]

A report from the Australian Department of Transport in 1987 examined cycling accident victims and found that "of the unhelmeted cases involving severe head injury, over 40 percent would definitely have had an improved outcome if a substantial bicycle helmet had been worn". Substantial bicycle helmet means a bicycle helmet with a hard shell, which was the requirement under the standard prepared by Standards Australia. The report also warned about deficiencies in bicycle helmets: "The substantial elastic deformation of the child head that can occur during impact can result in quite extensive diffuse brain damage … rotational accelerations were found to be 30% higher than those found in similar tests using a full face polymer motorcycle helmet." Bicycle helmets are not suitable for children more deformable heads, which can result in brain injury. Soft-shell helmets showed high rotational acceleration, the main cause of brain injury. The report recommended changes to the helmet standard to remedy those deficiencies [13] [14]

The recommendations to improve the bicycle helmet standard were ignored. Instead, the standard was lowered to accommodate soft-shell helmets that were more comfortable to wear, paving the way for mandatory helmet legislation.[15]

A former minister in the Hawke Government observed that after 1987: "increasingly, the Government, and most importantly (Prime Minister) Hawke, became hostage to narrow and unrepresentative pressure groups." By 1989, just before the government decided to introduce compulsory wearing of bicycle helmets, an officially commissioned survey showed that public support for it was 92% for children and 83% for all riders.[16]

In 1988, the largest ever cycling casualty study was published, involving more than eight million cases of injury and death to cyclists over 15 years in the US. It concluded: "There is no evidence that hard shell helmets have reduced the head injury and fatality rates. The most surprising finding is that the bicycle-related fatality rate is positively and significantly correlated with increased helmet use." Though this study was published a year before the announcement of compulsory helmet wearing as Federal policy, the Federal Office of Road Safety gave no warning about it to the ministers who decided on the policy.[17]

A controlled study of 1,710 cyclists undertaken throughout the 1980s "demonstrated that bicyclist casualties wearing Standards Australia Association approved helmets had a 45% reduction in the frequency of head injuries."[18] The RACS used this study to push for mandatory bicycle helmets in Victoria. A position paper released in 2009 reaffirmed the Colleges position that mandatory helmet laws be retained.[19]

Mandatory helmet laws were first introduced in Victoria in July 1990 [20], followed in January 1991 by laws for adult cyclists in New South Wales and all cyclists in Tasmania, then in July 1991 for child cyclists in New South Wales and all cyclists in South Australia as well as Queensland (not enforced the first 18 months). In January 1992 helmet laws were introduced in the Northern Territory and Western Australia (not enforced first 6 months) and in July 1992 in the ACT. In Tasmania the law only applies on public streets, while in the NT since March 1994 there is an exemption for adults cycling along footpaths or on cycle paths.[21]

Injury rates

A 1994 study of cycling in Victoria found "The number of insurance claims from bicyclists killed or admitted to hospital after sustaining a head injury decreased by 48% and 70% in the first and second years after the law, respectively. Analysis of the injury data also showed a 23% and 28% reduction in the number of bicyclists killed or admitted to hospital who did not sustain head injuries in the first and second post-law years, respectively. For Melbourne, where regular annual surveys of helmet wearing have been conducted, it was possible to fit a logistic regression model that related the reduction in head injuries to increased helmet wearing."[22] This study was criticized because it ignored the similar trends for pedestrians, in particular that numbers of pedestrians with concussion fell by 29% and 75% in the first and second years of the bicycle helmet law.[23]

In 1996 it was reported the decline in cycle use after the helmet law was greater than the decline in injuries.[24] From 1988 to 1994, for all road users, deaths from head injury fell by 42%, and by 38% for pedestrians, with no evidence of reduced driving or walking over this time period. For cyclists, the reduction in deaths from head injury (30%) was less than estimates noted above of the reduction in cycling.[25]

King and Fraine studied data from the southern part of Brisbane, concluding that helmet wearing legislation and enforcement was associated with a reduction in head injuries, 26% more than expected if they had followed the trend for other injury types. The addition of the penalty for non-compliance had a larger effect, reducing severe head injuries by a further 55% and less severe injuries by a further 8% compared with the expected values.[26]

Neither King's study, nor the 1994 study of cycling in Victoria, made allowance for declining trends in the proportion of head injuries to all road users. In 1996, a more comprehensive analysis was published of data for Victoria and New South Wales, noting almost identical declining trends in the percentage of injuries that involved head injuries for both cyclists and pedestrians.[23] Information on head injuries, recorded for hospital admissions in Western Australia (WA) since 1971, shows the remarkably similar trends for all road users.[27] The WA data were used in cost-benefit analysis in 1999 that concluded: "In monetary terms, it is unlikely that the helmet wearing legislation would have achieved net savings of any sizeable magnitude."[28]

A review of head injuries and cycle use in four Australian states (Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia) and New Zealand concluded "Helmeted cyclists in collision with motor vehicles had much less serious non-head injuries than non-helmeted cyclists".[29] In 2010, a district court judge in NSW agreed that there is no conclusive evidence to the benefits of wearing bicycle helmets.[30]

A 2010 study from the University of New South Wales concluded that helmet laws led to a 29% reduction in cycling related head injuries over and above the effects of reduced cycling.[31] A subsequent paper argues that its conclusions were invalid.[32]

A study conducted in 2012 by the University of New South Wales found cyclist arm injuries had increased by 145 percent in NSW from 1991 to 2010 which reflected the increase in population and in cycling rates. In the same time head injuries only increased by 20 percent which the study claimed reflected the effectiveness of helmets in preventing head injuries [33]

Cyclists hospitalized with different types of injury; comparing reported rates of helmet use

Main article: Bicycle_helmet § Case-control_studies

Case-control studies supporting the effectiveness of helmets, including some from Australia, have been used in the Australian debate.[34] All are disputed.[35] The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) analyzed sixteen such studies, four from Australia.[36]

Bicycle usage

File:Graph show numbers of people cycling to work in Australian cities.png
Census data on cycling to work

Bicycle usage: studies with control groups

Some states made bicycle helmets compulsory before the 1991 census, which asked about mode of transport to work on census day. This allowed comparison of states with and without helmet laws. Cycling to work fell in all capital cities (except Canberra) after helmet laws were introduced but the latest (2011) census data shows Melbourne and Perth have recovered to above 1991 levels with Perth, Brisbane and Sydney showing considerable growth in the last two census periods.[37]

Bicycle usage: interviews, surveys and questionnaires

In a telephone survey shortly after the helmet law was introduced, the equivalent of 64% of adult cyclists in Western Australia, said they would ride more except for the helmet law.[29] Two years after the helmet law in New South Wales, 51% of schoolchildren owning bikes, who hadn’t cycled in the past week, cited helmet restrictions as the reason for not cycling.[29] A street survey in the Northern Territory found 20% of cyclists had given up because of the law and 42% said they had reduced their cycling.[23] When 325 cyclists in ACT in May 1992 were asked "Would you cycle less if helmets became compulsory?" (by members of group lobbying to against the proposed helmet law) 28% said they would.[38]

Bicycle usage: changes without concurrent control groups around the time of helmet compulsion

According to the most recent census data (2011) the number of people riding to work has decreased in Brisbane, Sydney and Adelaide since helmet laws were introduced but has increased in Canberra, Melbourne and Perth.[39]

For children, the decrease in numbers of cyclists counted (2215 in New South Wales, 649 in Victoria) was much greater than the increase in numbers wearing helmets (1019 in NSW and 43 in Vic), suggesting that the main effect of the law was to discourage cycling rather than persuade cyclists to wear helmets.[23]

In Melbourne, where regular annual surveys of helmet wearing have been conducted, there was "a 36% reduction in bicycle use by children during the first year of the law and an estimated increase in adult use of 44%."[22] The claim relating to adult use was criticized because MUARC ignored the number of adults actually counted in 1990, and instead "estimated the effect of the law by comparing adult cycle use in 1991 with a much earlier survey (1987/88) at a different time of year. This is... invalid because... cycle use has a marked seasonal variation."[40] Surveys in Western Australia showed a 33% decline in cycling to work from 1986 to 2006 (from about 1.5 to 1.0 trips per weekday per 100 people), consistent with the census data. Shopping trips fell by 55%, from about 5.2 to 2.3 per weekday per 100 people; trips for education by 79%, from about 8.2 to 1.7 per weekday per 100 people.[41]

In the mid to late 1980s, cycling was undergoing a surge in popularity. In Western Australia (WA), numbers cycling more than once a week increased from 300,000 in 1986 to 400,000 (27% of population) in 1989. Cycling increased significantly (+250%) in the Sydney metropolitan area.[23] Cycling to work increased from 1.72% in 1986 to 1.85% in 1991 in WA and from 2.4% to 2.56% in Queensland.[42] In 2011, a national survey of cycling by persons aged 9 or over found a 21% increase in cycle trips between 1985/86 and 2011, compared to a 58% increase in the population aged 9+ years. The per capita increases from 1985/86 were therefore reversed, with a further 24% reduction in the number of cycle trips per person compared to 1985/86 levels.[43]

In Metropolitan Melbourne, cycling trips to work decreased from 1.3% of work trips in 1991 to 1.0% in 1996, increasing to 1.6% in 2006. The increase from 1.0% to 1.6% of work trips from 1996-2006 represents a 175% increased in total cycle trips to work.[44] However, cycling to work in Victoria as a whole (including Metropolitan Melbourne) decreased from 1.75% before the helmet law in 1986 to 1.40% in 2006. In Queensland, the decrease was from 2.56% of work trips in 1991, before the helmet law was enforced, to 1.41% in 2006[42]

In Australia as a whole between 2000 and 2009, there was an overall increase in cycling to full-time work or study, from 1.1% to 1.5% modal share. There was also a 47% increase in cycling "on the top five commuter routes into capital city centres between 2005 and 2008." As of 2010, the number of cyclists in Australia was at an all-time high. 1.93 million people cycled in 2008, "representing a 21% increase in cycling participation since 2005 and a 34% increase since 2001. Cycling is now the 4th most popular physical activity behind walking, aerobics and swimming."[45]

As of 2010, bicycles had outsold cars in Australia each year during the previous decade by over 2,000,000, with over 1.3 million bikes sold in 2010, a 12% increase over the previous year and a 67% increase over 2001.[46] Half of Australian households now own at least one bicycle, and today, "more people in Australia are cycling than ever before."[47] A national yearly survey shows that people who had ever cycled in the previous year increased from 9.5% of all adults in 2001 to 11.6% in 2008, an increase of 2.1% [95% CI: 1.14 to 2.76]. This 2.1% represents an overall increase in cyclists of around 343,552. The difference between the estimated number bought and the actual industry total average number of bicycles sold (n = 753,843 per annum) numbered at least 395,000 unused adult bicycles sold each year after sensitivity analyses. There appear to be many more bicycles sold in Australia than are used.[48]

Helmets and Melbourne's bike-share scheme

Melbourne inaugurated a bicycle sharing system in 2010. Mandatory helmet laws have been cited as one reason for its low initial usage.[49] Increased access to helmets in local shops saw usage of the bike share scheme almost double in late 2010 to an average of 183 trips a day.[50][51][52] The bike share scheme has seen its usage increase in 2011 from a low point of 257 average daily trips in July, to 519 in January 2012.[53] Nonetheless, this is still low by international standards at 0.4 trips per bike per day in July and 0.8 trips per bike per day in January,[54] while 8 to 10 trips per day is usual elsewhere.[55]

Public attitude to helmets

A survey of 1000 Australians by the Cycling Promotion fund found that 515 respondents were not interested in cycling for transport, with 15.7% citing "don't like wearing a helmet" as one of their reasons. This was the 13th most popular response with safety issues ("Unsafe road conditions" "Speed/volume of traffic" and "Don't feel safe riding" the top three responses). 158 people had cycled for transport in the past month.[56] In 2010, two researchers conducted a telephone survey of 600 Sydney residents, in which 1 in 5 respondents claimed they would cycle more if they didn't have to wear a helmet. From this, the researchers concluded that, "To the extent that Sydney is representative of the rest of Australia, the repeal of mandatory helmet legislation would be likely to substantially increase cycling in Australia."[57]

See also

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