The aim of the attorney and avid cyclist Doug Landau of the Herndon law firm Abrams Landau, Ltd. is to save children from traumatic brain injury due to skateboarding and cycling accidents. His program named "Lids on Kids" was introduced in Hutchison Elementary School on May 22. The purpose of the program was to provide helmets to the children who don't have them, but this year the program had a twist. It was made compulsory for the students of fifth and sixth grade to have a pledge signed by a parent or adult guardian in order to get a free helmet. Landau said that they did so that they know that the family is also invested in bicycle safety.
According to Herndon Connection, "Held after school in the Hutchison cafeteria, children and parents learned basic safety rules, the importance of wearing a bicycle helmet every time they ride whether on a bike or skateboard and what could happen to their brains if they were in an accident without one. "Your brain cannot be replaced," said Landau. He explained that when a rider is in an accident and treated for bleeding inside the skull, the brain swells and pushes against it with nowhere to go. Wearing a properly fitted and non-damaged helmet cuts the risk of severe traumatic brain injury by 90 percent, according to Landau. He told the students and parents that if one of his helmets, each with a special sticker inside, is ever damaged due to an accident, bring it to the law office for a free replacement helmet."
The bicycle helmets were gifted by Attorney Landau, compliments of the Herndon law firm and Virginia Trial Lawyers Foundation, to the children with the help of his team, school staff and Fairfax County Police officers from the Reston District Station, MPO B.T. McMahon and PFC D. Rocco.
