Hard heads or helmets?

• Position: STATELINE - Brief Article

New Hampshire safety officials say a rise in motorcycle fatalities is not related to the lack of a mandatory helmet law. The state's highway safety coordinator says deaths likely are up because more people are riding without taking safety courses. (New Hampshire had a mandatory helmet law between 1967 and 1977.) But a new study by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration found that in the three years after Florida repealed a law requiring riders...