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David Kerber

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I was just dazed and abraded, otherwise unhurt. I think the helmet
saved my life.
replace it. Again, I think the helmet saved my life.

Oooh, _two_ life threatening incidents. You must be very unlucky; I've
never had even _one_ accident in which, helmetless, I would have suffered
any serious head injury, let alone been killed.

The sheer number of saved-my-life stories illustrates they are nonsense.

Not really; it just illustrates that people don't realize just how tough
a head actually is, and how hard it is to kill someone with a straight
head impact. In the vast majority of those cases, they would most
likely have received a concussion of some greater or lesser severity (or
perhaps just a nasty bruise or cut). That doesn't mean the helmet
didn't reduce the severity of the injury, though.

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