Wear Bicycle Helmet Or Not

Injuries to the head are one of the main causes of death and traumatic brain injury for cyclists in traffic accidents.

Wear bicycle helmet or not. According to the national highway traffic safety administration bicycle helmets are 85 to 88 percent effective in mitigating head and brain injuries. Let me qualify that headline. Many argue however that while there is a very small chance of being in a bike crash involving a head injury forcing people to wear helmets discourages mass ridership which in turn would save far more lives by preventing heart disease obesity. Pushed way back on their heads exposing their.

Despite these shocking statistics less than half of all bicycle riders wear helmets. Use a condom every time this is where people usually make a joke about not doing all these things at once don t try to use the condom while riding. Bicycle helmet reduces the risk of head injury by 48 and the risk of serious head injury by a full 60. Bicycle helmets were not found to have any statistically significant effect on cervical spine injury.

More education about bike helmets is needed. The use of bicycle helmets was found to reduce head injury by 48 serious head injury by 60 traumatic brain injury by 53 face injury by 23 and the total number of killed or seriously injured cyclists by 34. Protect your head and brain. Here are ten reasons to wear a bike helmet.

For example alaska does not have any bike helmet laws but anchorage alaska ce rtainly does if you are a rider under the age of 15 you must wear a helmet while riding in any public space. Riders give many reasons for not wearing helmets. Even worse the percentage of teens who wear a helmet is significantly less than half. To make your decision easier we enclose the results of a norwegian study called bicycle helmets to wear or not to wear which was published in 2018 by the institute of transport economics in oslo.

I do not don my bike. In a recent consumer reports survey 10 of adult bike riders at an event in new york city were wearing their helmets like the kid in this picture. The problem isn t that i m not wearing a helmet the problem is that streets with crappy bike lanes in the door zone are packed with people speeding in suvs while they peek at their iphones. I do wear a helmet when mountain biking.

Undoubtedly if you are in a bicycle accident involving a head injury a helmet may very well save your life or prevent serious brain damage.