Aldermen Sharon Dijksma (Amsterdam), Robert van Asten (The Hague), Judith Bokhove (Rotterdam) and Lot van Hooijdonk (Utrecht) are thus responding to the minister’s plan not to submit a proposal for the introduction of the measure to the Lower House until next spring. send. According to the four, it is quite possible to send that proposal to the House before the Christmas recess.
‘We need to hurry, as it turns out time and again that light-moped riders are very vulnerable in traffic. Dozens of them die every year from the consequences of an accident, ‘130 doctors already registered last year an urgent letter to the minister. ‘Anyone who survives an accident with a light moped without a helmet often has a lot of (head and brain) injuries. The consequences of this are often lifelong, ‘said the aldermen.
Helmet duty Amsterdam
With the introduction of the Helmet duty for moped riders is in Amsterdam already show that the measure is feasible. And yet the minister is in no hurry. “She makes the issue unnecessarily complicated by expanding it to all kinds of new, fast, electric means of transport and gets bogged down in discussions about types of helmets,” the aldermen state in the article.
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