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Bike Helmet Laws Reducing Injuries
The Truth About Compulsory Bike Helmet Laws Reducing Injuries
Tute Task 1

Scientific Thinking and Research Skills
CORE 11-113

Sarah Anderson
ID: 13137519
Tutorial class: Tuesday 1-3pm
Word Count: 1099

The Truth About Compulsory Bike Helmet Laws Reducing Injuries

WRITTEN REPORT
As a child growing up in Australia one of the first birthday presents we may receive after we have learnt to walk, is a bicycle. Our parents would always guarantee that we would wear a helmet when we went out to play on our new bicycle, to ensure that we were safe from head injuries but do compulsory bike helmets laws really prevent injury? In this report we will examine the effects of bike helmet laws on reducing injury in bike use.

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