Re: Another comment rejected by UCRM moderators!

On 8 Mar, 03:37, Phil W Lee <phil(at)lee-family(dot)me(dot)uk> wrote:

That every time someone without a helmet has a crash it proves that
helmets make injury worse.

I don't think anyone has said that.
I know that in some crashes a helmet will worsen the outcome - notably
those where the unhelmeted head brushes lightly past a solid object.
In those cases the extra size of a helmet would turn a light brush
into an impact, which the absence of a helmet avoids entirely.
This is not just speculation - I've had my hair parted by a tree stump
and was completely uninjured.- Hide quoted text -

Does that mean that parting your hair with a comb could be dangerous?

Derek C
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