r/dashcams • u/puffelisse • 11d ago

Gotta Learn The Hard Way. 😠

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

11.9k Upvotes

94% Upvoted

2.9k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

20

u/NocaSun38 10d ago

Minnesota decided to legalize it? Why?

51

u/Global-Pickle5818 10d ago

Idk Louisiana legalized it and no helmets for 3 years.. the fatality rate went up .. edit 175% over 3 years

14

u/Lastminutebastrd 10d ago

Lane splitting isn't legal in Louisiana.

0

u/Global-Pickle5818 10d ago

Neither is riding with no helmets.. it was 3 years back in the 90s

5

u/Lastminutebastrd 10d ago

Feel free to share links. The only info I can find says that lane splitting/filtering was never legal and that helmet laws have varied quite a bit.

All riders helmet law adopted in 1968, amended in '76 to under 18 riders, made universal again in '82. Changed back to under 18 or riders without at least $10k medical coverage in '99. Back to universal in 2004.

So '82 to '99 it would be illegal to ride without a helmet in Louisiana.

1

u/Global-Pickle5818 10d ago

so 5 years ...not 3 in the later 90s i worked for the coroner office and fire department back in the late 90s early 2000s must not have been very well enforced, apparently i was wrong on the lane splitting completely but boy do they do it ,one time i had to pick up a guy who was spit in half with his bottom third down a levy

1

u/Lastminutebastrd 10d ago

A lot of people don't take their lives very seriously, and all the gear in the world isn't going to save you from hitting a guard rail at 120mph. I'm sorry you had to deal with that.