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Wear your helmet
My message, and how I spread it.
By Eric Mattson
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Why I chose it
• I know some people who ride motorcycles
• Many lives could have been saved each year if people would have worn their helmets.
• Wisconsin doesn’t have a helmet law.
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What I did
• Sent it to all my friends on Facebook; they spread it to their friends, etc, etc.
• I wrote a petition to get a helmet law passed.
• I put up some posters around my neighborhood.
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Statistics
• Helmets stop approximately 37% of potentially fatal injuries.
• In 1998, 327 lives could have been saved by helmets; 500 lives were saved by helmets
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Some visible results
• I’ve seen more people on motorcycles wearing helmets.
• Some of my Facebook friends are now wearing their helmets more consistently
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Resources
• http://www.webbikeworld.com/Motorcycle-Safety/crash.htm
• http://www.iii.org/media/hottopics/insurance/motorcycle/