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Helmet laws aside, please look at page 16 of this report before talking about how effective helmets are: http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/downloads/pdf/episrv/episrv
by throwaway5752 11y ago
Helmet laws aside, please look at page 16 of this report before talking about how effective helmets are: http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/downloads/pdf/episrv/episrv-bike-report.pdf http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/downloads/pdf/episrv/episrv-bike...
edit: tl;dr for you obviously, but ~200 people died over 8 years in NYC. Where helmet use was noted in the police report (~ half), 97% of fatal accidents involved people not wearing helmets. Someone else can do the Bayes' numbers but it's pretty obvious. Anyway, I support bike lanes and oppose helmet laws. But I wear a helmet.
- jacquesm 11y agoThe USA is very much a bike-unfriendly country with some very small regional exceptions, and any effectiveness should be placed in a regional context. In absence of bike-lanes a helmet probably makes sense. What also really helps is to educate drivers and to shift responsibility to the drivers of cars in car-bike collisions. If there was one factor that made bike riding safer here in NL then I'd point at that one rather than bike lanes or helmets. People are simply much more careful around bikes.
- Natanael_L 11y ago97% vs how many that don't wear helmets at all? Also 97%, or 70%, or 50%? That's pretty important for understanding how much the risk increases.