I wonder about the source for statistics of this nature.
Having spent the first half of my cycling career in a helmet free
environment, I have often wondered about the apparent increase in head
injuries since helmets became popular. I wonder whether it is because helmet
damage is equated with head injury.
A case in point was the other day when I was cycling home on the
bikepath, going west on the Western Parkway, when I met a rider coming
towards me at the point where there is a left filter off the path onto
Churchill Ave., just south of the point where it crosses the roadway, west
of Island Park.
The rider met the cyclist behind me just at the point where the
latter wanted to filter left onto Churchill Ave. She had actually pulled off
onto the grass to make this turn but the appraching rider thinking that a
collision would be imminent slammed on his brakes and promptly took a
header, landing on the grass and rolling onto his shoulder in the process.
Shaken, he sat up nursing a sore shoulder. Realising nothing was
broken he picked himself up engaged in the ensuing discussion as to the
cause of the accident. Only when he started adjusting his helmet that it
became apparent that it had broken.
It appeared to me that vee brakes acting in conjunction with a
suspension fork may have been the culprit in this case, but I wonder if this
accident had made it into the statistics, whether it would have come under
the heading of a 'cycling related head injury'.
Clearly the helmet was damaged but it was the rider's shoulder that
took the brunt of the fall - would this have translated into a head injury
if the rider had been without a hemet.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Slavitch [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2001 8:03 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [obc] NYT Article on bicycle helmets
>
> Interesting stuff here on on bicycle helmets.
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/29/national/29BIKE.html?todaysheadlines
>
> They believe that the increased use of bike helmets may have had an
> unintended
> consequence: that cyclists when wearing helmets take more risks. Head
> injuries
> are increasing in the US rather that decreasing..
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