Current can pass legislation through the House of Representatives from Colorado Children under 18 need to wear a helmet while driving. The close vote, 33-32, brings the bill one step closer to a law, as it heads the Senate chambers. This comes days after the governor of the state, Bill Ritter was treated for serious injuries related to a bike crash.
would Nominated by Fort Collins Democratic Rep. John Kefalas, House Bill 1147 make in voting for the lawColorado's 23 state to require including the District of Columbia, to wear a helmet youth cyclists. Nearly 200 local laws as an attempt, the number of bicycle injuries that occur annually curb exists.
Helmet laws reduce medical costs
The Child Safety Network reports that nearly 200 children under 15 years of age die each year from bike injuries. Each year, close to 9,000 children hospitalized and 344 000 additional children treated in emergency rooms for injuries from a bicycle accident suffered. Because bicycle helmets prevent, violations face, 52-60 percent of bicycle-related traumatic head injury deaths, 68 to 85 percent of fatal injuries, head and scalp and 65 percent of the upper and middle classes, the laws are helmets dramatically reduce the expected total nationwide medical cost-bike injuries, especially those who have a traumatic brain injury.
A skull-brain> Injury, accident bike is a continuing serious financial burden leads. This type of injury can result in expensive medical bills reduce future income due to permanent disability and the impact of general quality of life costs. The SACN estimates that "if 85 percent of all child cyclists wore helmets in 1 year, the lifetime medical cost savings would be $ 197 to $ 256,000,000 in total.
The government estimates, Colorado to save up to $ 110 per year in medical costs for each helmet, which isworn - a number that could result in $ 1,000,000 savings in a month.
Traumatic brain injury and children
According to the United States Center for Disease Control, the following statistics show the number of 0 children under the age of 14, the victim of a traumatic brain injury:
* 2685 deaths
* 37 000 hospitalizations
* 435 000 emergency department visits per year
Preventive measures to reduce the number of occur head injury thatEvery year would be fiscally advantageous and would help improve the quality of life for active children - to ensure their safety during the activities they love. Preventive measures are expected to compensate reduction in the number of traumatic brain injury lawsuits filed by those seeking monetary.
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