Re: [Bikies] Bicycle helmets reduce risk of serious head injury by nearly 70%, study finds

2016-09-22 Thread Chuck Strawser via Bikies
ikies-boun...@lists.danenet.org] On Behalf Of Harald Kliems via Bikies Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2016 2:05 PM To: Scott Morris Rose; Bikies Subject: Re: [Bikies] Bicycle helmets reduce risk of serious head injury by nearly 70%, study finds It should be noted that this is not a new study per se, but a met

Re: [Bikies] Bicycle helmets reduce risk of serious head injury by nearly 70%, study finds

2016-09-22 Thread Harald Kliems via Bikies
It should be noted that this is not a new study per se, but a meta-analysis, that is, the author analyzed a lot of other studies and summarized their findings. Rune Elvik did the same thing a couple years back and came to very different conclusions: http://www.cycle-helmets.com/elvik.pdf It'll

[Bikies] Bicycle helmets reduce risk of serious head injury by nearly 70%, study finds

2016-09-22 Thread Scott Morris Rose via Bikies
The Guardian reports on a paper given at the Safety 2016 conference which reports on results of a large-scale study of bicycle helmet use in the Australian state of New South Wales (which is where Sidney is).