Originally Posted by
Pscyclepath
A couple of years ago there was an article concerning a student who fell in traffic and had his head run over by a deleivery truck. His helmet did its job and prevented the guy's head from being squashed like a melon... but this is a pretty extreme case.
And that article was completely bogus. Or claims that helmets absorb impact energy by crushing are completely bogus. Think about it. You cannot have something that survives 5+ tons rolling over it but crushes when someone falls over and hits their head.