Has your helmet saved your life poll

[newfhouse]

To derail: I love the Newfoundland in your avatar. I don't have the time or space for a dog, but if I did, it would be a Newfoundland. They are wonderful.

Thanks. I'll let her know she has a fan

 

[Arsen Gere]

http://cyclingresourcecentre.org.au...elated_head_injury_trends_for_new_south_wales

 

[Bromptonaut]

Had bike go from under me in slippy surface. Broke hip and collar bone, head uncovered just touched ground. Would a helmet have helped??

 

[ianrauk]

Had bike go from under me in slippy surface. Broke hip and collar bone, head uncovered just touched ground. Would a helmet have helped??

It would have saved your life..............

 

[Ajay]

I believe that my badly fitted helmet saved me from injury - at best whiplash, at worst a broken neck, it slipped back and braced my head from my back as I kissed the tarmac.
It's all rather random.

 

[Dan B]

Had bike go from under me in slippy surface. Broke hip and collar bone, head uncovered just touched ground. Would a helmet have helped??

Who knows? By making your head larger it might even have meant your head struck the ground more forcefully

Of course, if you'd been wearing it on your hip....

 

[TheDoctor]

If helmets were such a safety aid, we'd see statistical evidence on this from NZ and Australia, where helmets are compulsory.
It just isn't there. Cycling has declined, but injury rates haven't.

 

[defy-one]

I seems this forum debates the helmet every day ..... Why?
There are studies to say it saves head injuries,there are studies to say they don't.
Wear one if you wish, don't wear one if your not convinced :simplez

Personally i do when out on the fast bike, not when i commute. Don't care what folks think. My life,my choice.

 

[Red Light]

I seems this forum debates the helmet every day ..... Why?
There are studies to say it saves head injuries,there are studies to say they don't.
Wear one if you wish, don't wear one if your not convinced :simplez

Personally i do when out on the fast bike, not when i commute. Don't care what folks think. My life,my choice.

That's all fine apart from one big assymmetry. There are a number of groups, BHIT, Headway, BMA, some MPs (most of them people who do not cycle) intent on forcing us to wear helmets. There is no-one I know of campaigning to ban you from wearing a helmet. If we do nothing about this we will end up with a mandatory helmet law - there have been a number of attempts over the last decade to introduce one in Parliament and it is only the activities of the pro-choice community that have allowed you to make your own choices. Currently in Jersey, children (and their parents) are not so lucky.

 

[Mr Haematocrit]

 

[defy-one]

@redlight - i get that,but when have any uk government ever managed to impose a safety measure on cyclists or pedestrians?
I just don't see it happening when we have so many major issues affecting the country.
It's a bit like the clocks changing debate .... Gets talked about every year,sometimes makes the news .... But never gets changed

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I'd post that helmets are sh1t but the mods would only delete it.

 

[ianrauk]

I'd post that helmets are sh1t but the mods would only delete it.

Indeed, even though I do agree that helmets are sh!t,

 

[Red Light]

@redlight - i get that,but when have any uk government ever managed to impose a safety measure on cyclists or pedestrians?
I just don't see it happening when we have so many major issues affecting the country.
It's a bit like the clocks changing debate .... Gets talked about every year,sometimes makes the news .... But never gets changed

There have been plenty of attempts to impose them but thanks to the activities of the cycling community we have managed to head many of them off. For example the proposed changes to the Highway Code that would have made us liable for the consequences of cycling on the road if there were a cycle path (of any quality) available. Similarly there have been many attempts to introduce mandatory helmet laws either through specific Bills or through amendments to other Bills going through Parliament. And while I agree that police enforcement would be a problem for a helmet law here, it will leave you vulnerable legally in any accident and subject to being picked on by any policeperson who got out of the wrong side of bed that morning (talk to some of the cyclists in New Zealand for example). It would also almost certainly at a stroke cut significantly the number of people cycling and kill of the highly successful Boris Bike scheme. So even without enforcement it will have a significant negative effect on cycling in the UK

 

[totallyfixed]

Interested to get your feedback as to how effective the common lid is, as opposed just reading data from a study (which is also helpful)

No vicarious stories from the local hairdressers, husbands babysitters best friend.

either your experience or a person you know directly.

Ta

Over 20,000 members on CC now but as usual it always boils down to just a few protagonists exchanging virtual blows for the vast silent majority. What would be really interesting, providing folks told the truth [slaps myself, how could it be otherwise on CC]is together with their answer there was an additional box to say how long they have been cycling, I have a theory it is relevant.