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fair enough, perhaps I am an old ARSE but with age comes wisdom. I'll bow to your better knowledge and back down now.
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my second point makes mention of good sense which probably counters both 3.and 4.
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until (and if) helmets are made compulsory the choice to wear one or not will be down to the individual. my opinion is that cyclists who do not wear helmets do so for one or both of two reasons: 1. They consider themselves far too cool to be seen with something so unsightly perched on the top of their head. 2. They consider themselves naughty little anarchists who spit in the face of good sense dictated by other (older?) people.
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An engineers opinion is more important in that situation than a medical doctors. A doctor is not the position to determine if the helmet offered and protection in that crash.
surely you don't have to be an engineer to know that the human skull was not designed to smash into 2 ton of metal at even pedestrian speed. Helmets on the other hand are designed by extremely qualified engineers and have spent thousands of hours going through rigorous tests conducted by even more engineers.
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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!
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Not my opinion, the doctor's. Yeah, he should have been looking but then the driver should have checked his fuel gauge before he set out on his journey and then he wouldn't have run out of diesel. I've been riding for over 25 years and I've come of at slowish speeds whilst climbing in the ice more than once and my head has hit the ground. I don't know what would have happened had I not been wearing a lid.
What have you based the 'he would have probably survived' on exactly?
And I'm not sure the most competent rider in the world would ride into a stationary object such as a parked car would they?
(This is just picking up on your points and no disrespect intended)
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It's down to individual choice but I choose to wear one since time i did time trial and my minute man told me my lid would slow me down. 20 minutes later he was dead after going head first into an illegally parked car. He would probably have survived. You can be the most competent rider in the world but there'll always be some idiot in a car somewhere.
Lia helmet whenke I said I'll accept I'm completely wrong and bow to superior knowledge. I apologise for stating my narrow minded outbursts. What do I know, after all I've only been riding bikes competitively and socially for 28 years starting with bmx track at 14. Maybe if I'd never worn a helmet when I had all those crashes as a kid I'd have had some sense knocked into me. Nuf said, that's my last post on this topic. I'll stick to less controversial topics like "should fixies have brakes?".