If only they'd worn a helmet...

A place to document incidents where a helmet may have prevented injury.
For example:
http://amp.ktvu.com/news/san-francisco-3-year-old-suffers-traumatic-brain-injury

http://www.omaha.com/news/crime/people-are-injured-in--vehicle-crash-in-northeast-omaha/article_00535f98-e1ad-11e7-9d58-c7e82a352007.html

A 13-year-old boy who was a passenger in the car suffered a head injury and was unconscious at the scene.

http://www.wbay.com/content/news/Appleton-Police-investigate-report-of-bullying-at-elementary-school-463945323.html

a student received a head injury as the result of a bullying incident involving a fellow elementary student," reads a statement from the police department.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/man-who-suffered-brain-injury-10976209

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4268943/tanning-sunbed-too-long-mum-left-coma-gillingham-caroline-wood/

The 40-year-old then collapsed 12 hours later, falling down the stairs at her home in Rainham, east London.

http://www.fieldfisher.com/personalinjury/case-studies/brain-injury/barrister-who-suffered-brain-injury-recovers-substantial-compensation

he went to the bathroom at Daly’s wine bar which was situated down steep stairs. On his return up the stairs he fell. The evidence suggested that he had fallen from the very top of the stairs to the bottom and he suffered an extremely serious brain injury.

No comprende

Simple: People suffer head injuries in variety in incidents (non cycle related) where a helmet may have helped. It'll be interested to see patterns, and causes of head injuries that may have been prevented with a helmet

Hmm. I kind of get the point, but it's still distasteful victim-blaming (even if its purpose is to highlight how widely accepted victim blaming cyclists is). And to an extent where it even feels like schadenfreude (but I'm projecting on this point).

It'll be interested to see patterns etc

Will it? It appears disingenuous.

https://www.firstpersonalinjury.co.uk/articles/artist-suffered-brain-injury-turns-life-around-new-exhibition/

The 28 year old suffered a brain injury in 2004 when she fell downstairs at home,

https://www.thenigerianvoice.com/news/189832/deceased-olu-of-warri-suffered-brain-injury-after-fall-sou.html

Ogiame Atuwatse II, likely died from a brain injury he suffered after
falling from the stairs of his Warri residence.

Exactly.

Shouldn't the same rules or considerations apply? How someone or someone's family would feel coming across this thread? Just for you to make a point?

It appears disingenuous.

Indeed as does the continual noise singling out cycling as a thing needing a helmet. This is to document that this is as ridiculous and disingenuous as to demand that helmets be offered wherever people are likely to climb stairs.
(Prompted by this )

How someone or someone's family would feel

every time a newspaper suggests that cyclists was/wasn't wearing a helmet. Which they do every time they report a cycle crash

No, I meant you saying "it'll be interesting" seemed disingenuous.
Anyway, I get it, as I already said.

I'm going to stop arguing because I think you understand my point and we simply disagree - I don't agree that making others experience the same sick feeling, is in anyway useful in your intended outcome, or at least not in a justifiable way. Making the population at large feel some aspect of what "cyclists" feel - sure. But specific, real individuals (who have suffered injuries or bereavement)? No way.

But which we do not do *here*
(we do sometimes, but I wish we wouldn't (before you go linking me examples))

You do have a point. I suppose I thought this a useful record similar to @Oliver Schick cars crashing into buildings thread.
With a similar touch of irony

If all the reports are from news already to there I don't see any issue with relatives coming across this thread. I think it will be a useful location to point people to so as to make the case for equity in the treatment of cyclists injured whilst not wearing a helmet.
Lawyers defending injured cyclists from a claim for contributory negligence will have a much easier task.

Fucking @Oliver Schick blaming buildings for being crashed into. WAC etc etc

Lawyers defending injured cyclists from a claim for contributory negligence will have a much easier task.

You think?

If all the reports are from news already to there I don't see any issue with relatives coming across this thread.

You really can't see the issue of an news article on a traumatic event, being used as an agenda for something unrelated, having any impact for those concerned?

I hope

No

The point is not to blame anyone for anything.

Of course it's equally absurd to insist on wearing a helmet for climbing stairs as it is for cycling or driving.

Going ice skating this Xmas? Yeah me too.
Absolutely no reason for anyone to be wearing a helmet or hi viz there, I mean no one ever falls over unintentionally, with others skating past their hands on metal blades.

If only she was wearing a helmet, nobody ever mentioned it at the time:
https://youtu.be/bKK6c_hd9Y8

terrible, If only they'd worn a helmet

daily news reports please, heres one from Poole, http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/15777293.Driver_rescued_from_sunken_car_which_plunged_into_waters_at_Poole_s_quayside/?ref=mr&lp=2

impossible to know how these daily incidents occur, cars flipping, all sorts of unaccountable incidents, if only they'd worn a helmet