India: Woman On Motorcycle? No Need For ATGATT |
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File under Female Travel Safety
Author: Mike Werner
Location: Normandy, France
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Hmmm.. strange laws in India. As a male motorcycle rider, you are required to ride your motorcycle with a helmet, but if you are female, you do not need one. In other words, females lives are much more expendable, not counting for much.
It's probably why so many women die on their roads.
 © AFP Photo/Prakash Singh |
| |  | | A woman rides on the back of a motorbike in Delhi on April 10, 2012. While the law mandates a helmet for her male driver, a woman can legally go without, an option campaigners warn is costing dozens of lives each year AFP Photo/Prakash Singh |
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| | | | A woman rides on the back of a motorbike in Delhi on April 10, 2012. About 133,938 people or 366 a day died on India's roads in 2010, according to the National Crime Records Bureau, more than any other country |
Via: News Yahoo & AFP
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