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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. (Section 6.1, p21) -- Tony "The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right." - Lord Hailsham |
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Response to Tony Raven:
Haven't we seen this before, or am I deja-vu-ing? [Later: yes, we have, and here it is - http://tinyurl.com/e9loe ] 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. But there are so many confounders! - the figure you quote above may imply nothing more than that off-roaders are more likely to have accidents. IIRC and from a *very* quick glance, the proper conclusions to draw we cycling is pretty safe cycling on roads is safer than cycling off-road helmets can prevent minor injuries [by far the top three types of head and neck injuries reported are abrasions, contusions, and lacerations] helmet-wearing is associated with limb injuries [a slight positive correlation, but there are plenty of confounders] helmets don't make much difference to the severity of injuries [ditto] the writers of the report take for granted the efficacy of helmets, which is not supported by their data. -- Mark, UK "History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must be yielded up peaceably." |
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"Mark McNeill" wrote in message ... r But there are so many confounders! - the figure you quote above may imply nothing more than that off-roaders are more likely to have accidents. You clearly don't understand statistics in the urc world. IIRC and from a *very* quick glance, the proper conclusions to draw we Ah, proper conclusions!, you're getting into the spirit of things. ;o) |
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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. -- Gareth Rees |
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in message , Gareth Rees
') wrote: 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. -- (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/ pSchroedinger's cat is blinkstrongNOT/strong/blink dead./p |
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