Seanad debates
Wednesday, 5 February 2003
Road Safety: Motion.
Motorcyclists, too, fare proportionately badly in their contretemps with trucks with a 7% mortality rate. It is a serious problem that we do not have a test for motorcyclists. It is not only motorcyclists who are in such a vulnerable position, so are pillion passengers. I am a member of the board of Peamount Hospital where we have a unit described as being for the chronically sick young. It would be better termed the unit for the injured-from-motorbike young and their pillion passengers because they have no protection. They are made into mincemeat when they come off their bikes.
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