Old 12-10-06, 03:41 PM
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I wish for Mr. Moulton's rapid and complete recovery.

Though I wish that he'd have stayed away from the idiotic idea of pushing helmets on people some more.

Curious that he didn't try to educate people on how he was injurred and what he could have done to avoid it. Instead he seems to try to dodge the question of fault completely.

Of course it doesn't matter who is at fault when a cyclist is injured but the fact remains that you have about half the chance of being injured or killed on your bicycle as you do in your car and no one tells you that you should be wearing a helmet in your car where more than half of the fatalities are still from simple head injuries of the sort a helmet would mediate.

That implies that some 20,000 people each year could be saved from fatal head injury if they wore a bicycle-type of helmet while driving their automobiles. This as compared to only some 650 cyclists being killed each year and only a tiny percentage of them could be saved by a helmet since almost ALL of the road accidents to cyclist are multiple fatal injuries. It doesn't matter much what sort of shape your head is in if your neck is broken, your internal organs mashed into hamburger and your blood drained from your body.

Now, wear a helmet if you like, it probably doesn't hurt anything, but it is FAR more important to learn how to behave on the road, to pressure the legislature to pass laws to not just promote but to FORCE safer driving of motor vehicles and to make everyone more aware that the roads are for everyone and not just the monied few.
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