Process Essay-The Ten Second Life Savor

The Ten Second Life Savor In 2002, 3,244 motorcyclists died and approximately 65,000 were injured in highway crashes in the United States. Many of those lives lost could have been saved if a helmet was used. In the United States, laws are always seen as something to be changed constantly especially when dealing with motorcycles. The law dealing with wearing a helmet is one law that will always change state to state. When on a road trip on your bike the last thing you want to be thinking about is “Do I have to wear my helmet right now? Or is it ok to ride ‘free’ for an hour or so?”. Of the fifty states, only three are 100% helmet law free. Illinois, Iowa and New Hampshire have no restrictions on wearing a helmet. Of the other 46 states, 20 have full helmet laws. For these 20 states, no matter your age or number of years riding a motorcycle you must have a helmet on any time while on the bike. The remaining 27 states have partial helmet laws for
Yet drivers and states refuse to see this and don’t enforce the laws needed to be in place. Drivers without a helmet are 40% more likely to have a fatal head injury and 15% more likely to have a no-fatal injury leading to hospitalizing. They are also three times more likely to suffer from brain injury either right away or later on down the road. Not only does your health pay for this but so does your wallet. Studies have shown that inpatient charges double form $2,325,000 to $4,095,000 for those who ride with out a helmet. Cost for non-helmet riders is also increased because they are the riders who tend to have little to no insurance. If they are in a wreck they are also the ones who suffer from a worse injury, which not only increases their medical bills but then raises the economical cost. From 1984 to 2002, if all riders wore a helmet they could have saved over $19 billion dollars in economical