Wear your helmet...??

[Russell]

Some stats on pedestrians...

- Pedestrian fatalities account for 11 percent of motor vehicle fatalities.
- Over 180,000 pedestrians have been killed in motor vehicle accidents between 1975 and 2005.
- Pedestrians comprise the second largest category of motor vehicle accident deaths following occupant deaths.
- On average, a pedestrian is injured in a traffic accident every 8 minutes.
- On average, a pedestrian is killed in a traffic accident every 111 minutes.
- In 2005 a total of 4,881 pedestrian were killed in motor vehicle accidents.
- In 2005, the per capita pedestrian death rate was 1.6 per 100,000 people.

Is there a helmets for pedestrians lobby? I want to join up. Why stop there though? Body armour? Ban walking altogether?

Anyone who wears a helmet cycling but not when walking is a bit confused imo.

I think you're a bit confused.

As a way of showing that peds should wear helmets, these figures are absolutley meaningless as they don't take into account injuries or deaths in relation to total journeys taken.

You also fail to mention that the number of cyclists killed or seriously injured on our roads recently has increased whilst all other road users show a decrease.

Anyway...

I have a wife and daughter, both of whom I love and want to spent a lot more time with. If I break my arm or skin my knee or bust my collarbone, I'll still get to see them tomorrow.

If I crack my head on a rock when I get a line wrong, I might never see them again.

Thats why I wear a helmet.

The voracious 'anti-helmet' brigade can quote whatever spurious statistics they like and cry 'human rights' until their throats are sore for all I care. I wear a helmet to help protect against the risks I take so that I have a greater chance of seeing those that I love if I get things wrong on the trail.

If you don't feel the need to wear a helmet, good for you. Lets hope you always hit the soft dirt and not the hard rocks.

 

[Woz]

Laws are brought in when people are too (insert favourite personal derogative term here...) to make the correct informed choice...

Does this equate to "all Australian cyclists are moronic former convicts of HMS"?

:roll:

 

[We_are_Stevo]

Laws are brought in when people are too (insert favourite personal derogative term here...) to make the correct informed choice...

Does this equate to "all Australian cyclists are moronic former convicts of HMS"?

:roll:

No, "...descendants of..."

 

[Rich Aitch]

In the days when helmets came with a lycra cover and were as big as a car a lad in the year below me at our school got hit by a vehicle and survived his head strike because he was wearing a helmet. It was novel enough to get on the front page of the Yorkshire Evening Post, because helmets were pretty uncommon then. Needless to say I've worn one since.
I'd only lecture other people about wearing a helmet if I like them, so if I see you on your bike and your not wearing a helmet and I don't tell you off that just means that I think you would be no loss to society.
I don't think that helmet wearing [While cycling] should be compulsary because that would reduce creativity in the helmet industry. Competition improves the breed and at the moment the helmet industry isn't just competing with itself it is competing for the money of cyclists who wouldn't previously have brought a helmet. So they have to make them cool and attractive and comfortable. If you look at the helmets from 20 years ago they were more or less minging and were even more unpleasant than those jaunty little caps that roadies used to wear at the time. Helmets have come a long way and it isn't just because the likes of MET and Giro are competing for market share they are competing to grow the market.

 

[Rich Aitch]

And going to this subject of pedestrians :roll: should wear helmets it wouldn't have helped that woman who stepped out into the road front of me when I was cycling past- oh the irony- Leeds General Infirmary. It doesn't have a happy outcome because; she was still alive!
She didn't hit her head, of course, hence the lack of helmet relevence, it was a lower limb strike but the good news is- her Ugg boots were completely trashed.

 

[Ernie]

Some stats on pedestrians...

- Pedestrian fatalities account for 11 percent of motor vehicle fatalities.
- Over 180,000 pedestrians have been killed in motor vehicle accidents between 1975 and 2005.
- Pedestrians comprise the second largest category of motor vehicle accident deaths following occupant deaths.
- On average, a pedestrian is injured in a traffic accident every 8 minutes.
- On average, a pedestrian is killed in a traffic accident every 111 minutes.
- In 2005 a total of 4,881 pedestrian were killed in motor vehicle accidents.
- In 2005, the per capita pedestrian death rate was 1.6 per 100,000 people.

Is there a helmets for pedestrians lobby? I want to join up. Why stop there though? Body armour? Ban walking altogether?

Anyone who wears a helmet cycling but not when walking is a bit confused imo.

I think you're a bit confused.

As a way of showing that peds should wear helmets, these figures are absolutley meaningless as they don't take into account injuries or deaths in relation to total journeys taken.

You also fail to mention that the number of cyclists killed or seriously injured on our roads recently has increased whilst all other road users show a decrease.

Anyway...

I have a wife and daughter, both of whom I love and want to spent a lot more time with. If I break my arm or skin my knee or bust my collarbone, I'll still get to see them tomorrow.

If I crack my head on a rock when I get a line wrong, I might never see them again.

Thats why I wear a helmet.

The voracious 'anti-helmet' brigade can quote whatever spurious statistics they like and cry 'human rights' until their throats are sore for all I care. I wear a helmet to help protect against the risks I take so that I have a greater chance of seeing those that I love if I get things wrong on the trail.

If you don't feel the need to wear a helmet, good for you. Lets hope you always hit the soft dirt and not the hard rocks.

+1..loved ones..family..that sums it up

Ernie

 

[rosstheboss]

Case closed!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... 2oymHHyV1M

 

[tintin40]

technodup wrote:
Some stats on pedestrians...

- Pedestrian fatalities account for 11 percent of motor vehicle fatalities.
- Over 180,000 pedestrians have been killed in motor vehicle accidents between 1975 and 2005.
- Pedestrians comprise the second largest category of motor vehicle accident deaths following occupant deaths.
- On average, a pedestrian is injured in a traffic accident every 8 minutes.
- On average, a pedestrian is killed in a traffic accident every 111 minutes.
- In 2005 a total of 4,881 pedestrian were killed in motor vehicle accidents.
- In 2005, the per capita pedestrian death rate was 1.6 per 100,000 people.

Is there a helmets for pedestrians lobby? I want to join up. Why stop there though? Body armour? Ban walking altogether?

Anyone who wears a helmet cycling but not when walking is a bit confused imo.

Very interesting stats
I like the idea of banning walking start in Oxford street & the West End of London :x

 

[Arran]

Anyone who wears a helmet cycling but not when walking is a bit confused imo.

Yeah, 'cause pedestrians regularly do 40km/h in traffic. Get a clue.

If you ride faster than walking pace then 'common sense' dictates that you should wear a helmet for your own protection & to lessen the chance of your loved-ones having to spoon feed you for the rest of your days. Clearly, if law doesn't dictate that you wear a helmet then it's up to you (stating the obvious for the cranially challenged among us). Do, or don't, personally I don't care but as a tax payer i'd rather not have to pay for you to be cared for, for the rest of your life because you acquired a brain injury... because you weren't wearing a helmet when you fell off your bike.

The end.

 

[tintin40]

[The end.

This will never end until one group stops telling others what to do when out on their bike.

Got it?