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Helmets given to students By COURTNEY MARTIN, LTN Staff Writer Dec. 24, 2001 - The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office played bicycle safety Santa recently. The office gave bicycle helmets to more than 400 students across the county. First Sgt. Doug Norwood, Staff development and training coordinator, was in charge of distributing the helmets. “We decided fourth graders were a good target age because they seem to wreck more.” The schools all had contests with bicycle safety themes to see which students would receive the bike helmets. Most of the schools held an essay contest, but one had a poster contest. As a result, some 420 fourth grade students in Lincoln County now have new bicycle helmets. Norwood handed out the helmets and demonstrated the correct way to wear the helmet to students at all ten of the county’s elementary schools. Sheriff Pickens and her staff applied for a grant through the North Carolina Department of Transportation. The money they received was enough to buy 400 helmets through Wal-Mart, who helped them to get the additional 20 by allowing the purchase to be at cost. On Oct. 1 of this year, the bicycle helmet law went into effect. Anyone under 16 must be wearing a helmet on a bike. Because bicycles are considered a vehicle, said Norwood, ariding without a helmet can prompt result in a pare citation.. “I haven’t heard of any being issued yet, though,” said Norwood. —————————— Staff writer Courtney Martin can be reached at 704-735-3031 or courtneymartin@ltnews.com
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