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05-25-13 | 06:17 PM

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Six jours

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Paramount1973

Lawyers that specialize in bicycle accident litigation will tell you to wear a helmet. For a non-helmet wearer, besides the hole in your head and the concussion, or worse, you will likely get short shrift in pressing for injury compensation. You will look like you lack a certain amount of common sense. Like someone who refuses to wear a seat belt.

From the link: "The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has found that wearing a helmet reduces the chances of brain injury in an accident by 88%." So much fail in one sentence.

At any rate, you've repeated a claim that, while tossed around here repeatedly, as never been supported by any actual evidence. Maybe you'll be the first...