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@moth
Forks do a fairly tough job, and front end failures can get you into trouble very fast. Faster than you can react, let alone scrub off speed or anything.
Say your forks give up in such a way that your front wheel locks up while you are travelling in traffic at a decent speed. You get flipped forwards onto your head much harder than the design spec of your helmet and you die before you know anything about it.
Or maybe they suddenly snap off at the crown and you just collapse into sprawling heap on the road. Then get run over.
Steel is tough stuff and it's entirely possible that your re-bent forks are fine, but metal fatigue is a complicated subject and if you don't know the steel and it's history you can't say for sure.