Originally Posted by
San Rensho
This is the best argument for wearing a helmet. Given any crash where you hit your head on the pavement, no reasonable person can disagree that the injuries would be at best the same, but more likely much worse, if the person were not wearing a helmet.
True, though I do wish to note - just for the record - that most helmets (with exception to some skater/BMX type helmets that hang low over the brow) will not adequately protect one's forehead if they end up plunging face first to the ground - nor will any helmet (with exception, perhaps, to full-face) protect one from road rash below the forehead.
Just wished to point this out. Not trying to say that one is any safer without one (or for that matter, with one) - there is a limit to its usefulness. It isn't a cure-all.
-Kurt