“Would you find any better statistics than those being used for this law?”
As someone who spends his 9-5 compiling and preparing statics specifically for the purposes of increased safety, yes, I would look for better statistics than what they use. The numbers they haul out are incomplete. The Ministry of transportation numbers (the initial 199 injured that are used to justify the introduction of the bill) have no mention of cause. You cannot solve a problem without first identifying a problem.
Things I would want to know (at bare minimum):
Injury types and causes of the specific injuries (would proper fitting gear have solved the majority of the issues?)
Situation of incident (time of day, single vehicle accident, multi-vehicle accident, if so what other parties involved and how, what was the cause of the accident)
Experience of rider (How are the children’s injuries related to the experience of the driver? If the vast majority of injuries are related to inexperienced drivers, then you can limit the law to new drivers, if the spread is wider, then full bans begin to make more sense.
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“The two seconds between ‘Oh S**!’ and the crash isn’t a lot of practice time.”