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@Dammit
I was wearing my helmet when I broke my jaw- oddly enough as I landed on my jaw it made no difference to the outcome.
I'll still put it on this morning before I jump on the bike, on the principle that at the least it will stop me losing a lot of skin from road rash if I do go down- check out the photo's that Not4Sale put up after a car took him off his bike.
And in answer to the "well why don't you wear a helmet in the car" lobby- it's illegal to wear a helmet in a car in this country on a public road, the rally boys are meant to take them off between stages. There is also a strong argument that one of the main reasons to wear a helmet in a closed race car is to stop the roll cage from beating you to death in a roll over. You may gather from this that crashing in a car and crashing on a bike are rather different things.