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Jun 26, 2010
Consider crash helmets as interim safety measure
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<!-- end left side bar --><!-- story content : start -->AN IMMEDIATE measure that would significantly reduce the number of deaths in accidents involving lorries is to make passengers wear crash helmets.
This is like motorcyclists and their pillion riders. In a serious crash, both may be flung from their vehicles and death from head injuries is likely.
Did the three foreign workers in the Pan-Island Expressway accident on Tuesday die from head injuries?
I have also seen lorry drivers driving at frantic speeds with scant regard for the safety of their rear passengers.
These passengers, usually foreign workers, are probably too afraid to protest for fear of being branded as trouble makers.
Benjamin Tan
Consider crash helmets as interim safety measure
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<!-- end left side bar --><!-- story content : start -->AN IMMEDIATE measure that would significantly reduce the number of deaths in accidents involving lorries is to make passengers wear crash helmets.
This is like motorcyclists and their pillion riders. In a serious crash, both may be flung from their vehicles and death from head injuries is likely.
Did the three foreign workers in the Pan-Island Expressway accident on Tuesday die from head injuries?
I have also seen lorry drivers driving at frantic speeds with scant regard for the safety of their rear passengers.
These passengers, usually foreign workers, are probably too afraid to protest for fear of being branded as trouble makers.
Benjamin Tan