kgdykes@watbun.UUCP (07/30/86)
>From: hsc@mtuxo.UUCP (h.cohen) > >> Motor vehicle safety lies within the OPERATION of vehicle and >>not trying to lessen the effects of a collision, like medicine, >If avoidance could eliminate essentially all of the problem, >then there would be no need for treatment. In the real world, clearly, >there is a need for both. People involved in 10-speed accidents can "greatly benefit" from helmets too! Where is the law? >> To many people helmets "obviously" help in the treatment side of >>accidents, there are studies that show how helmets actually >>cause more complicated injuries. >This is quite simply not true. Opponents of helmet laws do their SIMPLY NOT TRUE?!? those studies do exists, i have read them over the years, are you going to make me dig thru reference libraries?? I said, and keep saying, it is NOT CUT AND DRY (ie: not SIMPLE at all) >>Also, the worst part of head injuries >>is the SUDDEN DECELERATION of the brain against the skull, >>no helment can help that. >Helmets have three primary functions: protection from abrasion, >penetration, and decelleration. >...by the crushable liner. Decelleration of the brain against the skull >can be reduced by two orders of magnitude by a helmet. LEGAL helmets can be open-faced, where is the padding? My last severe accident I slid on MY FACE with OPEN helmet for about 10 yards - lost my beard and a lot of lower lip. Good headache. Good abrasion. ...to be continued... (stupid mailer)