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When 42-year-old Myrthe Boss gets on her bike to go shopping in the Dutch town of Ede, she pops on a helmet. This act, considered essential in many countries, marks out Boss as something of a radical in the Netherlands, where helmet-wearing is rare.
Now, however, faced with a rising number of traffic deaths linked in particular to older riders and ebikes, the Dutch government and provinces – not to mention neurologists such as