Truck runs over rider

[CycleTherapy]

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

[KnottedYet]

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!!!

[Pax]

Holy crap!!!!

Giro needs to offer that young man a pretty penny for that helmet...then build an ad campaign around it.

[Pax]

...PLEASE WEAR IT FOR EVERY RIDE!!!

I forgot mine the first day I commuted. My Honey had a fit and took her car home at lunch to bring it to me.

[KnottedYet]

I forgot mine the first day I commuted. My Honey had a fit and took her car home at lunch to bring it to me.

Good for her! Yes!!! I approve!!!!! (I'd've done the same thing.)

[7rider]

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.

[KnottedYet]

My uncle ran a pickup truck over my brother's legs and didn't break a bone. Miracles happen.

[Trek420]

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.

I suppose, protects your head just as well that way.

[Jenn]

OMG, 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.

[missymaya]

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

[mimitabby]

and since when is " i didn't know I ran over someone" an accepted excuse
for hit and run?

[Python]

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.

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!

[missymaya]

I see people ride their bikes without helmets in traffic all of the time and it just makes me shudder . 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.

[margo49]

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.

[7rider]

Please please please everyone wear your helmets, no matter how "funny" you think you look.

Just think how "funny" you'd look with your head shaved and bandaged.
Or worse.....(I'll leave that to your imagination)