My name is olly and I sustained a TBI (traumatic brain injury) in 2015 due to not wearing a helmet while riding my bike. Right so, Google states that there is no British law to compel cyclists, of any age, to wear helmets when cycling, google also states that wearing a cycle helmet reduces risk of serious head injury by almost 70% and fatal head injury by 65% and 33% for face injury. And that's why I as many others strongly believe that the UK government should make helmet wearing a mandatory requirement. Yes, they are not 100% reliable but they are more than 50% reliable, and it would save a lot of our amazing NHS's time and the taxes of us British people.

Yes, they say many traumatic brain injuries would have not been prevented by a  helmet, as your brain can shake in the skull causing lots of little bleeds all over the brain (like my own).  However, all cars are fitted with working seatbelts by law, which are only 60% effective in reducing the likelihood of death and serious head injury, but you would not consider changing this law due to the amount of lives that are saved by them everyday. But the same amount of lives would be saved by enforcing bicycle helmets as law!

The only argument provided by the UK Government for not making helmets law is that it would discourage people from riding bikes and staying fit. Although, this is obviously very important it is not as important as the 45,000 people who sustain serious head injuries annually after crashing their bicycles without wearing a helmet. There are plenty other solutions for people to stay fit, which do not require the use of a helmet to stay safe such as running, using an exercise bike, swimming or plenty of other things.

It should be made a finable offence, so the first time you are caught without one you get a warning, the second time A £25 pound fine and then it keeps going up by £25 each time and all the profits go to rehab like C.E.R.U, where I recovered.

This law will save a lot of unnecessary tears from families like my own. I don't think my sister will ever forgive me for taking mum away from her at a vital point in her life, and I know there's no way I can turn back the clock, so I just want to change it now, so other family's don't have to go through what mine has been through.

your's sincerely

olly dibsdale