Utah Senate: No helmet flags for dirt bikers

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Utah Senate: No helmet flags for dirt bikers
Associated Press - January 29, 2010 1:35 PM ET

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Dirt bikers and off-road-vehicle drivers won't be
allowed to attach a flag to their helmets in Utah instead of on a pole on
their vehicles when they're riding on certain sand dunes.
Democratic West Valley City Sen. Brent Goodfellow says long poles sometimes
hit people in a crowd and aren't always visible to other riders because they
bend down when they're in motion.
But Goodfellow's measure to allow the helmet option failed to gain enough
support in the Senate on Friday.
Senate Bill 19 fell two votes short shy of the number of needed to send it
to the House.
6 of the Senate's 29 members were absent.