Soon mandatory bicycle helmet for all in Belgium?

Cyclists in Region Zealand and the Capital Region are the worst in the country at using bicycle helmets. This is shown by a new study conducted by the Council for Safe Traffic. In the regions, around every second cyclist answers that they use a bicycle helmet. Capital: 51% Zealand: 47% Southern Denmark: 59% Central Denmark: 64% Northern Denmark: 62% Average: 55% Now the Council for Safe Traffic has allied itself with ZOO Copenhagen on a new camp…

Soon mandatory bicycle helmet for all in Belgium?

Rehabilitation physicians at UZ Ghent want a bicycle helmet to become mandatory in Belgium. After all, less than a third of Belgians (29%) wear a bicycle helmet, but out of the nearly four in ten victims of injury accidents involving bicycles and speed pedelecs who ended up in a Belgian hospital in 2023 had a head of brain injury, half of them even a skull injury. Flemish Minister of Mobility Annick De Ridder (N-VA) does not favor making it comp…