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> In 2013, 50,000 people suffered fatal brain injuries; 19 percent of those were due to car crashes. Among persons aged 5 to 24, motor vehicle crashes were the
by NickBusey 7y ago
> In 2013, 50,000 people suffered fatal brain injuries; 19 percent of those were due to car crashes. Among persons aged 5 to 24, motor vehicle crashes were the leading cause of death from fatal TBI (Traumatic brain injury). It’s likely that a good proportion of the 9,500 people might have been saved had they been wearing a helmet in the car.
https://www.treehugger.com/cars/why-all-cars-should-be-hi-viz-drivers-should-wear-helmets-and-car-radios-should-be-banned.html https://www.treehugger.com/cars/why-all-cars-should-be-hi-vi...
https://www.cdc.gov/traumaticbraininjury/get_the_facts.html https://www.cdc.gov/traumaticbraininjury/get_the_facts.html
The data disagree with you.
- CDSlice 7y agoYour first link has zero information to support that wearing a bicycle helmet would do any good, it only suggests it. Personally I doubt a bicycle helmet would do much good because they aren't designed to protect your head in such an energetic collusion. Your second link only says that motor vehicle wrecks are the cause of 20% of TBI related hospitalization. The word helmet doesn't appear in it at all. So no, based off of your links I wouldn't say the data disagrees with me.