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Headgear compulsory for pillion riders

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Maharashtra Transport Department has taken the right step to make wearing helmets compulsory for two-wheeler riders and those sitting pillion. The move follows Bombay High Court directives and applies across the State. To make it sure that the rules is followed strictly, the department has also asked all the motorbikes and scooters to sell not one, but two helmets to prevent fatal mishaps on the roads. The traffic police and RTO teams are on the move to penalise the two wheeler riders not wearing helmet. The Protective headgear certainly reduces the severity of the impact on the brain. Unfortunately, the majority still prefer a severely injured brain to a fractured helmet. They don’t realise that head injuries occurring in those wearing helmets are almost never critical, provided they wear a quality helmet, preferably an ISI mark helmet. The National Institute of Mental Health and Neuroscience, Bangalore has also confirmed that the severity of head injury, death due to head injury, incidence of skull fracture and occurrence of post-traumatic epilepsy were higher among those who were not using helmet as compared to those who did. City Police has taken the lead and it is a step in the right direction to wear helmet and safeguard the head from fatal injuries.

Abhishek Ramaswamy

(The views expressed by the author in the article are his/her own.)

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