Originally Posted by
Six jours
Folks, I'm pretty sure that they mean "slide out" as in "lost traction", not that the wheel fell out of the bicycle.
This was my impression as well. To me, this story shows, if anything, that there is no replacement for safe cycling.
As far as whether the helmet would have helped, those are some pretty sparse details. We don't know how she fell, if she hit a curb, etc. Who knows? Silly to speculate or imply that we should speculate that a helmet may have helped.