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@Dammit
I'm not talking about risk, that's quite a misleading little curve you've introduced Will.
I'm pointing out that the statistics are going to be misleading as I had an accident, in which I suffered an injury to my head whilst wearing a helmet.
So, in tick box terms it would be as if the helmet was not effective in any way, but the nature of the angle I hit the deck at meant that the helmet was never involved in proceedings.
I replaced it because a) well, it had been in an accident, and b) the straps were moulded into a tangled shape from all the blood that had come out of my ears, and I didn't fancy trying to get that clean.
And because Will mentioned it, I will say that wearing a helmet in no way contributed to my attitude to risk, i.e. the accident happening or not.
Having been drinking heavily for ~14 hours probably did though.