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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Dirt bikers and off-road-vehicle drivers won't be allowed to attach a flag to their helmets in Utah instead of on a pole on their vehicles when they're riding on certain sand dunes.
Democratic West Valley City Sen. Brent Goodfellow says long poles sometimes hit people in a crowd and aren't always visible to other riders because they bend down when they're in motion.
But Goodfellow's measure to allow the helmet option failed to gain enough support in the Senate on Friday.
Senate Bill 19 fell two votes short shy of the number of needed to send it to the House.
Six of the Senate's 29 members were absent.
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