Dear Editor,
I can't mind my own business.
I hear Dr Lucien Jones and others talk and talk and talk about the carnage on the roads. I am coming from the bedside of someone lying unconscious in a ward at Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) and a rider on a big bike, without helmet, has just sped past me.
The KPH patient was also the rider of a bike, riding without a helmet, and he was rendered unconscious after a simple accident that caused his head to hit against the kerb.
Why, in God's name, is the police not doing anything about these riders without helmets? From where I sit, the problem is so very easily solved: mandatorily seize the bike from every rider that is driving a bike without a helmet.
Within a week they would all stop, or the stations would be filled with bikes. When they come for the bike, they would be ticketed and, most importantly, they must present the helmet with which they intend to ride. Three strikes and their licence to ride would be revoked.
This so very simple solution would save hundreds of lives, millions in hospital costs, and render one, who might become a vegetable after an accident, able to remain a proper functioning member of the society.
Let's have action; not a 'bag a mouth' to deal with this unnecessary crisis that we now face.
Dr Jephthah Ford
Kingston 19
jephthahford@hotmail.com
Seize the bikes!
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I can't mind my own business.
I hear Dr Lucien Jones and others talk and talk and talk about the carnage on the roads. I am coming from the bedside of someone lying unconscious in a ward at Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) and a rider on a big bike, without helmet, has just sped past me.
The KPH patient was also the rider of a bike, riding without a helmet, and he was rendered unconscious after a simple accident that caused his head to hit against the kerb.
Why, in God's name, is the police not doing anything about these riders without helmets? From where I sit, the problem is so very easily solved: mandatorily seize the bike from every rider that is driving a bike without a helmet.
Within a week they would all stop, or the stations would be filled with bikes. When they come for the bike, they would be ticketed and, most importantly, they must present the helmet with which they intend to ride. Three strikes and their licence to ride would be revoked.
This so very simple solution would save hundreds of lives, millions in hospital costs, and render one, who might become a vegetable after an accident, able to remain a proper functioning member of the society.
Let's have action; not a 'bag a mouth' to deal with this unnecessary crisis that we now face.
Dr Jephthah Ford
Kingston 19
jephthahford@hotmail.com
Seize the bikes!
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