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By LOL all over again (anonymous) | Posted October 17, 2012 at 22:57:01 in reply to Comment 81790
No matter what you try to do, you cannot eliminate bicycle crashes. Since there will always be some of these crashes then cyclists will be safer if they are wearing a helmet.
Are you really trying to tell me that you refuse to acknowledge that once someone is involved in a crash that a bicycle helmet does not increase their chances of escaping injury and or death?
Why do we have to work on one strategy only? IE reducing crashes? It makes a lot more sense to work on both simultaneously.
Much like cars have been improved to reduce accidents, ABS, better lighting, better controls, ESC and others. We also improved the survivability by not only having mandatory seatbelts and improving those seatbelts with things like pretensioners but also having air bags and advanced crumple zones and a host of other features in todays cars. Perhaps the single biggest difference in car accidents and the resulting fatalities is that drinking and driving has become socially unacceptable, along with a strong legal push to punish drunk drivers more harshly. Not to say that drinking and driving has been eliminated but it has been reduced and the single biggest reason is it is not socially acceptable. Drivers no longer brag about how hammered they got last night and then drove home. Nor do they brag about driving home and being so drunk that they cannot remember it. All things that were heard too often not that many years ago. What we need to do is make riding a bike without a helmet socially unacceptable along with a law making wearing a helmet mandatory.
"I am sure that the diehards on the site will try to bend the numbers or spin the results..." didn't I nail that one.
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