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There's a lot of talk about road IDs and riding in the boonies ... just this past week we had a fatality in a nearby town.
Basically, he took a corner where the road was not in good shape, too fast; there was a dropoff to a drainage ditch, BAD FALL, major head injuries & broken vertebrae. Apparently not discovered for some time (but still alive; died a week later).
He wasn't really that far out into the boonies, either.
Wow, awful. Poor poor guy.
Do you happen to know if he was wearing a helmet?
We had a 20 year old young man killed here on his bike in my small town last month. But he was drunk, leaving a bar on his bike at 2am, no lights, no helmet, pouring rain. Killed by a hit and run on the highway, and they never found the driver (who I would wager had probably been drinking too).
I haven't been cycling for long, but.....I cannot tell you how many people I see, (men, women & children :eek: ), that are riding bikes WITHOUT HELMETS:confused: !!!
I just cannot understand it - it makes me crazy!
On another thread I read that someone kept a new helmet in their car to give to a person who wasn't wearing a helmet. I thought, "what a nice idea, perhaps I should do that..."
But -- 60% of the people I see riding are not wearing a helmet.
I can't figure it out.
Denise
The bike club here sells them for $10.
I'd say the majority of the folks I see riding in the areas I ride are wearing helmets. Maybe 90% or so?
YES, he was wearing a helmet, far as his wife knows (people said something about straps). It was just a bad fall with a big drop... tho' it also begs the question, did he have the thing on right? (Helmets are pretty common around here, too.)
Deaths are certainly very possible even with proper helmet use. The orthopedic surgeon I saw in followup from my crash told me about a friend of his who had a very similar accident to mine (over the handlebars, landing on head) who was also wearing a helmet. His friend didn't survive; I did. I believe that if I hadn't been wearing a helmet that I would not have survived. And even knowing that a helmet doesn't always save your life, I won't take a chance without one.
I think that we need to do everything we can to keep ourselves safe, but we also need to realize that accidents can still happen. I consider myself lucky that I'm still happily wandering the roads on my bike (with helmet).
--- Denise