Comments on: Reports that a garbage truck struck and killed a cyclist

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By: SFNative

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By: damian

damian — Wed, 29 May 2013 01:44:34 +0000

the kid was from concord;21 years old;riding those streets for the first time;can ya dig it?its a fuckin jungle out there especially when the recology drivers think THEIR BIG BAD FUCKIN TOUGH GUYS WITH SCUMBAG ATTITUDES AND DONT GIVE A FUCK DRIVING STYLE;THATS PART OF THE PROBLEM TOO

By: Mr. Blank

Mr. Blank — Sat, 25 May 2013 02:34:40 +0000

I stand corrected, Mr. Vegetable: a good helmet, worn correctly, can act as a prophylactic against head injury when an accident occurs. Any accident, not just a biking accident.

Let me be more precise: a helmet is not a prophylactic against having accidents.

I have nothing against people choosing to wear a helmet. Though I do wish people would quit discouraging others from taking up cycling with all their talk about how dangerous it is — it’s really not, I’ve been riding my bike in SF since 1991 — and put more effort into educating cyclists and motorists about ways to prevent accidents so we could have a cycling environment more akin to Copenhagen, where almost no one wears a helmet while riding.

By: Mr. Blank

Mr. Blank — Sat, 25 May 2013 02:10:04 +0000

I’m being a bit provocative… but not silly.

It’s a fact that bicyclists are less likely to suffer head injuries than any of the activities I mentions (being old is not an activity, I realize.) Here’s the Center from Disease Controls report, covering traumatic brain injury deaths in the US between 1997-2007:

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss6005a1.htm?s_cid=ss6005a1_w

To you’re main point that helmets often protect the head from accidental injury, I’m in complete agreement.

However if it’s head injuries that helmet advocates are trying to be prevented they should turn their attention to motorists and pedestrians; since both of those activities are more likely to result in head injuries than riding a bicycle. If that strikes you as counterintuitive, it’s probably because car accidents and people falling down are so common they rarely make the news. But you can check the CDC statistics and see that its true.