You can not build a case for or against helmets based on one accident, every accident scenario is different, I've been on the scene of many over the last 25 years, seen some where the helmet made absolutely no difference at all, they don't protect your neck, and can't prevent spinal injury. I've seen a small handful of accidents where the helmet may have made a minor difference in preventing road rash to the head and nothing more. I've seen riders in full DOT rated lids suffer coup-contra coup every bit as bad as riders in novelty helmets.
Every day I read posts from all you safety nuts on here extolling the virtues of wearing nothing but DOT rated head gear, yet I seriously doubt any of you even know what those requirements are to obtain a DOT rating for a helmet, or who wrote them, or how old and out dated those standards are, yet you keep beating your drums on this forum like a born again christian trying to convert the masses to your way of thinking........

 

If you're not a liberal when you're 25, you have no heart. If you're not a conservative by the time you're 35, you have no brain.
Furthermore, the Churchill Centre, on its Falsely Attributed Quotations page, states "there is no record of anyone hearing Churchill say this." Paul Addison of Edinburgh University is quoted as stating: "Surely Churchill can't have used the words attributed to him. He'd been a Conservative at 15 and a Liberal at 35! And would he have talked so disrespectfully of Clemmie, who is generally thought to have been a lifelong Liberal?"

 

----------------

 

............

 

This would be way more funny if he just got a bump on the head that caused amnesia. What ever the case he has gained a notoriety in death he never had in life, he is already the subject of ridicule on the news and talk shows. Let's hope the rest of us get to lead more productive lives.

 

Well said!

 

Are you serious? Wearing a good dot helmet and saving your head from contacting an object that will surely break it open, and spill your brains out, should be something high on your list of things to do. Freedom fo choice shouldn't be confused with common sense, but it seems most of the anti helmet crowd would rather look cool instead of live to tell about . I have seen the aftermath of a friends non dot helmet head contact accident, and I am sure my friend and the guy who died at the protest would have very different thoughts if they both were able to see the final outcome.,,

 

--------------

 

First thing, diving a car or riding a bike has nothing to do with freedom. In every state you are required to have a drivers licence to operated a vehicle of any kind it is a privilege, not a right guaranteed by the constitution. If that wasn't the case you would be able to drive any type of vehicle on the roads, and you can't. Where I live there's been a helmet law since 1966, mainly because it saves lives, not all the time but your odds go up wearing one. And every time there's a anti -helmet protest, it never fails someone goes down and suffers a head injury of some type, not always fatal but enough for the powers that be can say "see a helmet would have prevented that". And they are right. Police wear protective gear, firemen wear protective gear, soldiers wear protective gear, construction workers wear protective gear. There's a reason for it, just like your odds of surviving a motorcycle crash go up when your wearing something more then a Harley Davidson approved and licensed doo rag. I wonder how MR. Contos family looks at his anti helmet stance, now they have a funeral to arrange?.,,

 

-------------