The straight gen about bicycle helmets

On Aug 27, 4:37*pm, Frank Krygowski wrote:

"Fatalities in New York City in a few years" doesn't really qualify.
Bike fatalities are damned rare - only 750 per year in the entire US -
so the number in any one city is tiny. *To get a handle on chaos, you
need hundreds, perhaps thousands of data points.

- Frank Krygowski

Countering Frank Krygowski's lies can consume one's life, so most of
us have just stopped bothering. But this example is too gross to let
pass.

Actually, Franki-boy, the New York study was of 225 cyclist
fatalities, of which only 3% wore helmets, and another 333 cyclists
seriously injured, of which 13% wore helmets. That is a total of 558
cases in whose data it is strongly suggested that wearing a helmet
gives a cyclist a 433% greater chance of surviving even a serious
accident.

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

Andre Jute
Reformed petrol head
Car-free and on my bike since 1992
Greener than thou!