Remember kids... always wear a helmet. (The almighty bikeradar helmet thread)

The doctors opinion is no more valid than yours, it is pure guess work.

A parked car is a parked car, don't see the relevance of blaming the driver or why the car was parked where it was.

And yes you don't know what would have happened if you had not been wearing a helmet, i.e. could have made no difference - which is why this debate goes on.

i hope to God his opinion is more valid than mine! I'm only an accountant he does postmortems etc for a living! The consensus was that a helmet would probably have avoided brain injury but not there would probably have been spinal injury. My attitude is helmets may not look cool to some people but I look a damn sight cooler in a helmet than I do as a drooling wreck in a wheelchair!