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Events on Saturday 8 May 1943 1
1943The proof: deaths down by three quartersOxford, United KingdomA second BMJ paper, with the physicist A. H. S. Holbourn, showed army motorcycle deaths had fallen from around 200 a month to about 50. Cairns concluded that helmets for civilian riders would save a great many lives. It took Britain another thirty years to act on it.