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Always wear your helmet
Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 12:33 am
by Josephine
Cyclist OK After Truck Runs Over Head
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A delivery truck ran over a cyclist's head, leaving him only with a concussion and a mangled helmet. Ryan Lipscomb, 26, was shaken up, especially after he saw the condition of his helmet.
http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/storie ... 14-16-39-3
i don't even OWN a bike helmet... maybe time to reconsider...
Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 1:38 am
by Pru
I always wear my bike helmet. Getting run off the road by a school bus was less traumatic without a head injury.
Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 1:58 am
by mcrib
The strength of a bike helmet is amazing. But I can't explain how fucking lame it is the way cops handle these situations. They weren't sure if the truck driver was aware that he'd hit anything so it is not a hit and run, he ran over a guy's head. If there was a rock the size of a human head in the road you wouldn't know you'd hit it. I have had two friends hit in Lexington in the past couple of months and the cops took no action against the people driving the cars (or SUVs). How the fuck is it going to get any safer to not drive when the cops always side to the idiots driving the cars and not the people laying on the ground with broken bones.
Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 2:32 am
by Saxman
I don't see how styrofoam did anything to protect someone's head while being run over. The skull is what held the truck, not the helmet.
Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 6:55 pm
by Day
The link didn't come up for me. It may be true that the strength of the cyclist's skull is what kept his head from being crushed, but the helmet may have saved him from being scalped. You know, like sqeezing a grape.
Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 6:58 pm
by krampus
I remember rolling on the hood of someones car withing the first two weeks of owning a bike in lexington. I just rolled off and started laughing, needless to say I wear a helmet now.
Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 7:00 pm
by dmw
our former Lt. Governonr's Wife, the one time Miss America, ran over and killed a German tourist..... but of course bike safety didn't become an important issue in the Ville until Papa John got beamed with a flying object while on his bike.......
Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 7:20 pm
by Saxman
Most of the problem comes from asshole cyclists thinking they own the road. That is why so many people hate cyclists.
Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 7:27 pm
by goodguy
So I think that a biker has the same right of ways as a car. That being said, a friend of mine was hit by a car last year and he got the ticket. The ticket was justified, he was at a light and pulled up next to the car on its right side in the same lane. When the light changed he tried to go straight and when the car turned right he was hit. You can't have your cake and eat it to.
Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 8:04 pm
by charlie