How a helmet saved lives
True Stories:
A car turned smack into me. I hit the ground hard, head right to the curb. My bike is toast. I have a wretched shoulder, lots of road rash, broken cheekbone, minor concussion and a very well broken leg and destroyed knee. Nasty injuries but I'll heal. My helmet however got the worst of it. The shell is cracked into three chunks with a fist-sized chunk just gone. The guts are little more than crumbs. Had I not been wearing a helmet, the cracks would have been my skull and crumbs would be brain. I wear a helmet because I don't trust other motorists as far as I can throw them.
A dog darted out from between parked cars and I squarely T-boned the dog. I flew over the handlebars and first hit my head and then proceeded to land on my bottom. I fractured my pelvis and appear to have a concussion and some soreness in my jaw but I am alive. My helmet is cracked through the foam in multiple places. The EMT at the crash site stated that if I had not had a helmet on they would have probably been life lining me to the local trauma center instead I went to the hospital on my own.
My attention shifted from the road and in an instant I flipped over the handlebars after running into a buckle in the concrete. I rolled over the bike and SMACK I hit the back of my head. When I got to my feet I removed my helmet to see it was flattened on the rear left corner and had a 3-inch split. Obviously I hit very hard and am certain without the helmet I would have had an ambulance ride to the hospital.
I was knocked off my bike by a car turning right in front of me and he claims he didn’t see me. I don’t remember a thing about the accident. I was told that I bounced over the hood of the car, smashed into the windshield then landed on the road. I’m very bruised and battered. In the ER I suffered a stroke due to the impact to my head, which I know would have been much worse had I not been wearing a helmet.
My front tire collided with my friend’s rear tire. I went down like a ton of bricks, landing first on my knee, then my elbow and then my head, which slammed into and bounced off of the pavement. Fortunately I was wearing my helmet. I would have hit on my right temple, possibly causing a very serious head injury or even death.
A dog darted out from between parked cars and I squarely T-boned the dog. I flew over the handlebars and first hit my head and then proceeded to land on my bottom. I fractured my pelvis and appear to have a concussion and some soreness in my jaw but I am alive. My helmet is cracked through the foam in multiple places. The EMT at the crash site stated that if I had not had a helmet on they would have probably been life lining me to the local trauma center instead I went to the hospital on my own.
My attention shifted from the road and in an instant I flipped over the handlebars after running into a buckle in the concrete. I rolled over the bike and SMACK I hit the back of my head. When I got to my feet I removed my helmet to see it was flattened on the rear left corner and had a 3-inch split. Obviously I hit very hard and am certain without the helmet I would have had an ambulance ride to the hospital.
I was knocked off my bike by a car turning right in front of me and he claims he didn’t see me. I don’t remember a thing about the accident. I was told that I bounced over the hood of the car, smashed into the windshield then landed on the road. I’m very bruised and battered. In the ER I suffered a stroke due to the impact to my head, which I know would have been much worse had I not been wearing a helmet.
My front tire collided with my friend’s rear tire. I went down like a ton of bricks, landing first on my knee, then my elbow and then my head, which slammed into and bounced off of the pavement. Fortunately I was wearing my helmet. I would have hit on my right temple, possibly causing a very serious head injury or even death.