Helmet Law

One segment of the population will certainly benefit from Congress abolishing the federal 55-mph speed limit and, even more significantly, permitting the states to set their own motorcycle helmet regulations: ill patients awaiting organs for transplantation. Physicians have, for years, been attempting, through educational programs, to increase the number of organs available for transplantation. Now Congress has, unintentionally, accomplished this goal as greater highway speeds and unprotected motorcycle riders’ heads will increase the number of highway accidents and deaths, and the number of organs useful for transplantation.

All attempts to alter the extant California motorcycle law should be thwarted.

G.M. BORDIN MD

Del Mar