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In reply to the discussion: Destroying the Right to Be Left Alone [View all]hfojvt
(37,573 posts)they still do NOT have the right to run my life based on their concern
and google finds me a list of people who died even WITH a helmet on.
http://members.shaw.ca/jtubman/deadhelmet.html
I doubt if those people put their helmets on, got on their bicycles and expected to wind up in the morgue. Stuff happens.
There's clearly no way to be perfectly safe, but I do have close to 30,000 miles on my bicycle without head injury, so I think my odds over the next 1,000 miles are pretty good.
And considering these statistics, maybe people should be required to wear helmets when taking the stairs.
"Ride safely. And remember that severe bike accidents are quite rare, and bike deaths are even rarer. (In Canada, more people die by falling out of bed (an average of 78 per year) than from cycling accidents (an average of 64 a year, or 2 per million per year); 5 times as many die from falling on stairs; and 2.5 times as many die from tripping and falling on level surfaces [source: Statistics Canada's reports on external causes of morbidity and mortality, 2000--2003].)"
But I probably should not give the safety gestapo any ideas.