Originally Posted by
njkayaker
This is silly. You say this like everybody who gets into a collision with a car always dies. Not all collisions are with "
speeding steel".
Sure. But if it's some low speed affair that results in a simple fall then it is not really much different than a simple fall caused by something other than a car. Which, statistically, makes it extremely unlikely to be fatal.
Cycling deaths are overwhelmingly by high speed interactions with automobiles. Believing that helmets are at all helpful in those situations is akin to believing in the tooth fairy.