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The Councillor for the Environment, Adela Martinez-Cachá, discussed this morning in plenary in March a joint motion of all political groups to urge the Traffic Department that "in the amendment that is drafting the new regulation General traffic flow does not include the mandatory helmet use in urban cycling ".

Thus, the House, unanimously requesting a continuation of the current regulations in reference to the hull.

Remember that, from Spanish Network of Cities for Bicycle, currently chaired by the Mayor, Miguel Ángel Cámara, is valued positively worded the new Rules of the road, striking the traffic calming, reducing accidents and bicycle promotion.

According to Martinez-Cachá discussed, this implementation of the bicycle as a regular means of transport "could be seriously threatened by the introduction of bicycle helmet law in urban areas as it would, almost certainly, the collapse of public bicycle system present and future, due to the incompatibility of these systems with mandatory helmet and a brake apparent local economic activities linked to the bike. "

The mayor explained in the motion that the "implementation of cycle helmets compulsory in urban areas would also be an exceptional measure in our European environment, difficult to understand for visitors from countries where cycling is much more widespread"

As seen in the motion is not proven that "helmet law in urban cyclist incurring any substantial improvement for traffic safety in city urban cyclist, as there is no data to show its effectiveness in urban roads."

The council has stated that "the leading countries in the use of bicycles and bicycle traffic safety as the Netherlands, Denmark and Germany, rejected the mandatory use of cycle helmets by counterproductive."

Thus, and as proposed by the Network of Cities for Cycling DGT urged to "maintain the current legislation, which does not require the use of helmets on urban roads, and that current studies do not show that helmet use represents a reducing accidents or deaths from brain and skull injury, however, does reduce the number of cyclists who cycle for transportation, and users with this reduction would decrease the safety of cyclists. "

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia