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Ridgewood NJ, In New Jersey, anyone under 17 years of age that rides a bicycle or is a passenger on a bicycle, or is towed as a passenger by a bicycle must wear a safety helmet. … All helmets must be properly fastened and fitted.
Looks like many young people not wearing helmets , the Ridgewood Police should ticket every single child and every parent for encouraging law breaking.
Continue reading NJ Helmet Law Requires Tickets to Ridgewood Bicycle Flash Mob
The Trenton Nanny State wants your little ice skater wearing a helmet
By Matt Rooney | The Save Jersey Blog
New Jersey continues to take its “Nanny State” reputation to new extremes, Save Jerseyans. This is already the state where kids can’t shovel snow for extra cash without getting harassed. And the government seated in Trenton keeps on pushing…
A solution in search of a problem indeed! Trenton excels at passing such measures (often in the gun control context) where there just isn’t any justifiable reason to intervene, based on the statics, other than to make the legislators feel good about themselves AND to give them content for their feel-good reelection mailers.
This particular bill is upsettingly bipartisan – sponsored by Assemblywomen Marlene Caride (D-Ridgefield) and Nancy Munoz (R-Union) and its designed to force anyone under age 17 to wear a helmet while ice skating or riding a non-motorized scooter; it would also increase the mandatory helmet from 16 to 17 for bike riding/skateboarding. Ice skaters in competition would be exempt.
Again… why??? Statistics are hard to come by, but according to the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, in 2009, more than twice as many Americans were treated in emergency rooms for head-related injuries sustained playing golf. Soccer produced 6-times as many head injuries as ice skating! Even trampolining is more dangerous.
