Bokaro is my native place and the railway station is at one corner of the city and a market called Chas at diagonally the opposite end. The distance between these 2 places is merely 14 kms.
This explains above_all's point.

BUT, most people (employed ones) wear a helmet. You can see many people in the sabzi mandi (vegetable market) in the "hatia" buying vegetables with their helmets strapped on! They're too lazy to open it, but I'm glad at least they wear it.



(Seat belts are a different story altogether in my native. Though my dad wore a helmet ever since he had an LML Vespa to the Splendor to the CBZ Super Sprint, he never wore seat belts until I forced him recently.)

P.S - Studds seems to be the most famous brand in my place and almost everyone has Studds helmets. My dad has a Studds Ninja full face.

Here in Karnataka, most people don't have helmet awareness. First of all, helmet rule is applicable only in those cities with municipal corporations(population>3L). That alone is idiotic. Secondly, most people in those above mentioned cities wear the helmets only if they want to travel in the cop 'infested' roads(including Bengaluru). Even then, they remove it as soon as they pass those infected zones. About 30% of the people who wear helmets have crappy ones that crack at the slightest fall. Even in my college, only about 10% of the people wear helmets and I doubt even 5% of them wear them for safety.

i just returned from bangalore yesterday, good thing is ppl are forced to wear helmet, a lot of ppl were wearing helmets, bad thing, most those doesn't qualify as motorcycle helmets....u can see industrial helmet, plastic helmets and what not...