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Why has cycling been singled out as an activity in need of head protection?
pigman":1fte2ym8 said:the thing that now pi##ses me off with the helmet debate is that insurance companies and some judges in civil court cases have reduced payouts on the grounds of the cyclists' contributory factor of not choosing to wear a helmet. So you may get run down through no fault of your own, maybe even cos the driver was drunk/texting etc, but your compensation may be reduced cos you weren't wearing a helmet.
Yet if the same person would have suffered head injuries whilst driving a car, he would have no reduction on grounds of not wearing a helmet.
Stinks somehow.
This was exactly the case when an old woman in Scotland was killed by a driver and the driver got awaypigman":fma11wgn said:the thing that now pi##ses me off with the helmet debate is that insurance companies and some judges in civil court cases have reduced payouts on the grounds of the cyclists' contributory factor of not choosing to wear a helmet. So you may get run down through no fault of your own, maybe even cos the driver was drunk/texting etc, but your compensation may be reduced cos you weren't wearing a helmet.
Yet if the same person would have suffered head injuries whilst driving a car, he would have no reduction on grounds of not wearing a helmet.
Stinks somehow.