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Pasted this from a post over on BikeJournal....can you believe this ? A picture is sure worth a thousand words. What a testimony to wearing a helmet. Good advertisement for Giro helmets. :-)
Check out this link : http://www.madison.com/tct/news/index.php?ntid=133934
Excuse me? They didn't want to call it a hit and run?
Truck runs over bicyclist. Doesn't stop.
Uhhh, I'd call that a hit-and-run.
Remember folks: all helmets have to meet the same safety standards. Whatever helmet you choose PLEASE WEAR IT FOR EVERY RIDE!!!
Holy crap!!!! :eek:
Giro needs to offer that young man a pretty penny for that helmet...then build an ad campaign around it.
I forgot mine the first day I commuted. :o My Honey had a fit and took her car home at lunch to bring it to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by KnottedYet
Good for her! Yes!!! I approve!!!!! (I'd've done the same thing.)Quote:
Originally Posted by Queen
No way.
There is NO WAY a truck ran over his HEAD, and all he got was a concussion. No helmet is THAT tough.
He either got a glancing blow - which granted, a glancing blow from a truck can be pretty intense - or the truck bounced over a curb and rode over his head. Regardless, no styrofoam and plastic helmet is going to hold up under a truck. There is too much squishy stuff underneath (i.e., his head) for that to happen.
That is not to say, of course, that the story wouldn't have had a radically different ending if he weren't wearing his helmet, and he's danged lucky. So, yeah, always wear your helmet.
My uncle ran a pickup truck over my brother's legs and didn't break a bone. Miracles happen.
Yeah yeah, always wear a helmet, bright safety clothes, ride with traffic, signal your intentions....didn't help my cousin :(
But yes, helmets save lives. Funny thing seen on the commute last week, I normally would not do this but stopped a guy leaving the train then realized with his limited English had to use jesture, pantomime, turning his helmet 180 degrees, his was on backwards. :rolleyes:
I suppose, protects your head just as well that way. :rolleyes:
OMG,:eek: that's the same helmet I was wearing, and that is ALL I'm going to wear from now on. Wow, I he was SO fortunate!!
Like somebody said, that is GREAT P.R. for Giro.
HOLY MOELY!! That's crazy, how can you not know that you ran over something, especially it's a SOMEBODY!! I'm glad he's ok. This is definately a great safety ad for helmets!! I treasure mine:D
and since when is " i didn't know I ran over someone" an accepted excuse
for hit and run?
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Originally Posted by Regina
I heard on another forum that it was a glancing blow.
I always wear a helmet (and I insist my son wears one too). The memories of when I was 6 years old (44 years ago) and severely bashed my head are still quite vivid.
Someone on another thread wrote "Better to look like a mushroom than end up a vegetable". How true!
I see people ride their bikes without helmets in traffic all of the time and it just makes me shudder:eek: . I fell once on a wooden bridge (hard enough to knock my brake and gear levers out of adjustment and bend my rear derallieur) and if it weren't for my brain protector, I would've really hurt my precious noggin!! Please please please everyone wear your helmets, no matter how "funny" you think you look.
Shee-yi - it!
Another helmet-disciple here.
Despite 1000's of wind-in-the-hair miles touring and messengering in the 70's and early 80's. Started wearing one several years ago and had a crash last year that would have ended up much worse if it wasn't for the helmet.
Just think how "funny" you'd look with your head shaved and bandaged.Quote:
Originally Posted by missymaya
Or worse.....(I'll leave that to your imagination)
I saw a pic of the helmet today while I was eating lunch. It certainly looks live it was run OVER.