Boy Going to Washington as Advocate of Bicycle Helmets
If you go bicycle riding without your helmet, don’t tell 11-year-old Peter Beal or you’re likely to get a tongue-lashing.
The Granada Hills boy has been an ardent supporter of helmets since he was hit by a car while riding a bike in August. Peter was seriously injured, suffering several bone fractures. Doctors told him he would have died if he had not been wearing his bicycle helmet.
Peter will join 20 children ages 10 to 14 in a trip to Washington, D.C., in May as a SAFE KIDS All Star. The children, chosen by hospitals nationwide, have either saved other youngsters from injury or have become safety advocates since their own accidents.
The entire Beal family have become boosters of bicycle helmets since the crash and think nothing of stopping to tell kids to be safe.
“You can’t not say something,” said Denice Beal, Peter’s mother.
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