On Sep 1, 10:38*pm, Uncle Dave wrote:
On Sep 1, 9:29*pm, Andre Jute wrote:

snip

I'm afraid, Uncle Dave, that people will assume the worst of you for
snipping the numbers and the reference. So I give them again for
everyone's benefit.

• Most fatal crashes (74%) involved a head injury.
• Nearly all bicyclists who died (97%) were not wearing a helmet.
• Helmet use was only 3% in fatal crashes, but 13% in non-fatal
crashes

Source:
http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/download...ike-report.pdf

There's nothing wrong with a desire for accuracy.
I'm far more concerned that fantasists seem to wish for everyone else
to share in their fantasies.

Yes, that's why I want to publish honest statistics, because there are
too many malicious clowns who lie about the numbers.

You failed to quote the really telling statistic from the report -
"Nearly all bicyclist fatalities (92%) occurred as a result of crashes
with motor vehicles". *You place yourself in dodgy company. *

That's always the danger when you make soundbite summaries for the
soundbite minds on the net. The short-brain anti-helmet zealots were
complaining that the report and even my summary were too long for them
to grasp, so I made that crisp summary, which left out the more
obvious, generally agreed statistics, like "Nearly all bicyclist
fatalities (92%) occurred as a result of crashes with motor vehicles."

There was
an asshole here in the UK who, failing to watch where he was going,
killed a cyclist and then had the timerity to start a campaign to make
wearing of helmets mandatory. *

Some people have a goddamn cheek.

Faced with such stupidity and denial,
it's no wonder that cyclists are less than enamoured when somebody
starts lecturing them about wearing helmets.

I hope you aren't talking about me. I made no recommendation for
either helmet wear or against, for either mandatory helmet laws or
against. I'm publishing honest statistics as a social service to
cyclists. I don't appreciative anonymous clowns trying to insinuate
that I have an agenda.

*Helmets aren't the
problem, car drivers are.

I agree. The culture has to be changed to make the driver responsible
when he hits the cyclist.

Andre Jute
Krygo, he say, "Any old number is good number."