in message , Gareth Rees
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Tony Raven wrote:
Publication by the Scottish Executive
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/...71/0015829.pdf

39% of injured cyclists reported they were wearing a helmet at the
time of their accident.

Yet for Scottish cyclists in general 65% never wear a helmet and only
23% wear a helmet on all or most trips. So ~ 23% of the (helmet
wearing) population account for ~40% of injuries.

Or else some injured helmetless cyclists are lying.

It is, of course, entirely possible that the average helmetted cyclist
cycles more miles than the average unhelmetted cyclist. Without data on
that you cannot say whether cycling with/without a helmet is more
dangerous per unit distance, which seems to me the interesting issue.

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