You sure needed this ID, not the Verginal Cracked nut nor me!
Get your facts right !!!
Bike helmets aren't really all they are cracked up to be. Why ?
Take these two examples: a six-year-old who slides off his bike on the driveway, and suffers nasty grazes and bumps to the head, entirely preventable had he been wearing a helmet; and a man of 40 flung from his bike into the path of a lorry by a passing car - he's dead from massive "non-survivable" head injuries. Even the best-designed bike helmet would have made no difference.
It's nice to think that between these two extremes there must be cases where helmets would make a significant difference to the incidence of long-term disability or death. Nice, but probably incorrect.
The BMA's board of education and science, which has examined the evidence, has just concluded that helmet use should not be compulsory in the UK. It is estimated that only around 18% of British cyclists wear them. In Australia, the home of helmet regulation, their use is mandatory. Deaths and serious head injuries among cyclists in Victoria fell by around 45% in the year following legislation in 1990. But so did the number of people riding bikes - by 40% in adults and 60% in children. Is this the real reason for the apparent drop in injuries and deaths?
Opponents of legislation point to New Zealand, where a sharp rise in voluntary helmet use in the months prior to a new law being enforced was not matched by any reduction in the rate of serious head injuries.
The Snell Memorial Institute in California was set up in memory of an amateur motor racer who died in 1956 when his "state-of-the-art" helmet failed completely to protect him. A Snell certification label is the gold standard in terms of safety certification of protective headgear (Snell B95 is the one to look for when buying a cycle helmet.) But the institute has never advocated any specific cycle helmet law.
Dr. George Snively, a founder, has said "it is impossible to build a [cycle] helmet that will offer significant impact protection".
A live brain is said to have the consistency of blancmange. Putting blancmange in a polystyrene box will not allow you safely to throw it against concrete without the contents being just as badly shaken as had the "protection" not been present.
"Bike helmet saved my life" makes a headline. But such claims often follow off-the-cuff comments
Pedestrians and car occupants are in fact more likely to suffer head injuries from road accidents than cyclists. In the US, 34% of fatal head injuries happen to people in cars. Some 7% are pedestrians, and only 1% riders
Rather than encasing people in armour-plating, we should be directing our attention to that nut behind the steering wheel and the Bike.
Get REAL CAD. !!! Or Shut.....CTRLAltDel
