Helmets Part 1,489,348 - To Wear Or Not To Wear

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http://road.cc/content/news/188663-taiwan-introduce-e-bike-licensing-and-helmet-law

"New rules class electric bikes as lightweight scooters - and follow Chinese crackdown that could hit poor and migrant workers hardest"

"Taiwan’s Transport Ministry has proposed law changes..."

In China, meanwhile, e-bike riders have suffered repeated crackdowns, with Shenzhen city police banning e-bikes from 90 per cent of city roads in 2012, on the grounds they compete with motor cars and run red lights. According to Sixth Tone (area newspaper/site), police announced last month that a quarter of the 431 road traffic deaths in the previous 12 months involved some of the city’s 4 million e-bikes and reportedly confiscated 18,000 e-bikes and detained 8,000 riders in ten just days in March in a bid to eradicate what is branded a “silent killer”.

Shortly afterwards Beijing police banned e-bikes from several major streets in the city centre.