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Experts butt heads on bike helmet laws

Amy Simmons, 17 August 2010, ABC News
The man behind the push to make bike helmets compulsory more than 20 years ago has hit back at a pair of academics from Sydney University who are now calling for the laws to be overturned.
Associate Professor Chris Rissel and Dr Alexander Voukelatos from the university's school of public health have looked at the number of cyclists admitted to hospital in New South Wales with cycling-related head injuries between 1989 - before helmets were mandatory - and 2008.
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