Originally Posted by
I-Like-To-Bike
Given the current emotional climate and family/medical pressure to get any head impact "checked out" immediately at a hospital "just in case," I doubt that you would have avoided the ambulance ride to the hospital and subsequent 24 hour observation if your helmet was so much as scratched after an impact with a truck. I am surprised that the hospital didn't run all sorts of expensive tests i.e. MRI's just in case, especially if the procedure would be covered by somebody's insurance.
My wife suffered a
NON contact subdural hematoma when we were rear-ended. Wearing a helmet would not have made a difference. A young customer of ours fell while riding his 20" BMX bike, struck his helmetless head and wound up in a coma. A helmet most likely would have prevented his disabilities.