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@kerley
Yes, I knew sub conscience looked wrong when I typed it but I was being lazy!
What I mean by hanging on, is relying on. Hoping that a driver is more careful around you because they have spotted you are wearing a helmet (consciously or subconsciously) is probably not a good thing to bring into any objective safety discussion.
I would also think that any sort of data to suggest helmets wearers were on average given a wider birth is questionable as the drivers giving the wider birth are different drivers, i.e the same driver may give the same birth to the same rider regardless of helmet status.