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On 10 Nov 2024 14:51:05 GMT, Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com> wrote:

>John B. <slocombjb@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, 9 Nov 2024 21:57:56 -0500, Frank Krygowski
>> <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 11/9/2024 4:13 PM, Mark J cleary wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I always wear a helmet and if you don't want to wear one it is free 
>>>> county, don't wear one. I am not about to argue just that I wear a helmet.
>>> 
>>> Since this is a discussion group, when you make a statement like 
>>> "Generally it is much safer to wear a helmet" you can expect it to be 
>>> discussed. There's ample data available calling your statement into 
>>> question. Wolfgang knows this.
>> 
>> "Generally it is much safer to wear a helmet"
>> https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8909479/
>> An average of 247 traumatic brain injury deaths and 140,000 head
>> injuries among children and adolescents younger than 20 years were
>> related to bicycle crashes each year in the United States. As many as
>> 184 deaths and 116,000 head injuries might have been prevented
>> annually if these riders had worn helmets.
>
>And yet places with low rates such as the Netherlands or even as helmets
>have high useage be that cultural or legal the rate hasn’t been shown to
>decrease, judging helmets wearing and none is full of problems ie they tend
>to differ more likely to see kids helmets less in poorer areas which also
>are generally have more dangerous roads and so on.
>
>Just because Frank has one viewpoint doesn’t mean you have to take the
>opposite you know!
>
>Roger Merriman

To argue against mandatory helmet laws is one thing, but to argue
against someone choosing to wear one is stupid and ugly. 

--
C'est bon
Soloman