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To: bandita who wrote (63502)	11/26/2000 4:18:58 PM
From: If only I'd held	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 122087

You mean like roller skates, skateboards, bicycles, hang gliders, motorcycles, airplanes, cars, other forms of scooters, etc...? I really have to go now..dinner is at 5, and I want to play with the kids for a while first.

To: bandita who wrote (63502)	11/26/2000 7:17:25 PM
From: StockDung	Respond to of 122087

Scooter Helmet Laws Appear bhsi.org Last week an article over the AP wires indicated that various injuries across the nation are provoking election-year politicians to introduce local and at least one State ordinance requiring helmets for scooter users. The article followed a press release by CPSC on October 5th that reported more than 11,300 emergency room visits nationwide by scooter users. That is not many compared to the more than half million annual toll on bicycle riders, but 5,900 of them were in August alone, indicating either a rising trend or better reporting. AP reported laws in place or under consideration in about a dozen communities, with New Jersey the only State-level one at the moment. They included three in New Jersey: Elizabeth, Medford and Jefferson Township; Raleigh, NC; Milton, WA, San Francisco and Vista, CA, and the Park Ridge, Illinois District 64 school board. Many of the bills have been inspired by a local scooter death. Most will presumably cover children only, although the local bicycle helmet laws in Washington State have mostly covered all ages. CPSC had said in their press release that bicycle helmets would be appropriate for scooter users. You can find that press release at: cpsc.gov We have a page up on scooter and other helmets at: helmets.org

To: bandita who wrote (63502)	11/26/2000 7:19:52 PM
From: StockDung	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 122087

CPSC Reports as Scooter Sales Skyrocket, Injuries Soar Recommends Riders Wear Safety Gear NEWS from CPSC cpsc.gov U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Office of Information and Public Affairs Washington, DC 20207 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 5, 2000 Mark Ross Release # 00-178 (301) 504-0580 Ext. 1188 CPSC Reports as Scooter Sales Skyrocket, Injuries Soar Recommends Riders Wear Safety Gear WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) today reported that emergency room-treated injuries related to popular lightweight scooters have increased 700 percent since May. CPSC data show that there were more than 4,000 scooter-related injuries treated in hospital emergency rooms in August alone. There have been more than 9,400 emergency room-treated injuries reported for 2000 so far. Nearly 90 percent of the injuries are to children under 15 years of age. CPSC recommends that riders, especially children, wear proper safety gear including a helmet, and knee and elbow pads to help prevent injuries. This is the same safety gear CPSC recommends for in-line skating. Knee pads can help prevent knee injuries. CPSC estimates that more than 60 percent of injuries could be prevented or reduced in severity if protective gear had been worn. "These scooters are the 'in' thing with kids heading back to school," said CPSC Chairman Ann Brown. "Unfortunately, many kids are ending up in hospital emergency rooms instead of classrooms. Wearing safety gear can help prevent injuries." The scooters, which first went on the market in the United States last year, are new versions of the foot-propelled scooters first popular in the 1950s. They are made of lightweight metal such as aluminum and have small low-friction wheels similar to those on in-line skates. They usually cost between $80 and $120 and typically weigh less than 10 pounds. They can be folded for easy portability. Most injuries resulted when riders fell from the scooter. Fractures and dislocations accounted for 29 percent of the injuries. Most of the fractures and dislocations were to arms and hands. The best investment against injury is protective gear which can cost less than $35. CPSC recommends the following safety guidelines: Wear a helmet that meets CPSC's standard, along with knee and elbow pads. Ride the scooters on smooth, paved surfaces without any traffic. Avoid streets, or surfaces with water, sand, gravel or dirt. Do not ride the scooter at night. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission protects the public from unreasonable risks of injury or death from 15,000 types of consumer products under the agency's jurisdiction. To report a dangerous product or a product-related injury, call CPSC's hotline at (800) 638-2772 or CPSC's teletypewriter at (800) 638-8270, or visit CPSC's web site at cpsc.gov. For information on CPSC's fax-on-demand service, call the above numbers or visit the web site at cpsc.gov. To order a press release through fax-on-demand, call (301) 504-0051 from the handset of your fax machine and enter the release number. Consumers can obtain this release and recall information at CPSC's web site at cpsc.gov.