From the website:

So if I'm doing the math correctly, approx. 45% of the fatalities were wearing helmets and approx. 55% were not wearing helmets. So basically if you wear a helmet you have a 10% higher chance of survival on average.

The stat I found most interesting was

Based on my experience many elderly people could sustain a incapacitating injury if they fell of a parked MC. Although it's too bad he or she got injured, I'm glad to see that someone was still riding at 99.

 

My 'Best Friend' of 55 years just died of a Heart attack. (RIP) Archie.
He was NOT a motorcycle rider.
It was hard enough to see him in the coffin.

Would have been "impossible" to look at him if he'd been in a bike crash
and cracked open his 'noggin or scraped the hide off his face or worse.

 

Having reread something I posted, I realized something wrong with a stat I posted. The quote from the website said:

217+263=490 So what were the 6 other fatalities wearing?

 

 

I deliver to hospitals and surgery centers all over the country and I have heard several hundreds of times throughout the years someone saying that an organ donor was just brought in (motorcycle rider). I delivered to a hospital 3 weeks ago and a nurse that knows me (from deliveries) introduced a new nurse to me by saying that "this is our favorite murdercycle survivor".

They are not making fun of anyone, they have experienced so many of these riders come in and not live. In most of those cases all that was left to do was to ask the family if they want to donate his/her organs.

In my case the doctors made crystal clear to my family that I would have nowhere near the head damage that I had if I was wearing a helmet. My head bashed into a steel car and then went through a window at 45 mph. My forehead (skull) has what feels like a mountain range.

 

Not meaning to get off track from my OP but when you talk about helmet protection, high speed impact with or without a helmet I think is going to look gruesome. i.e.: How much the helmet helps may be at question.

When you have low speed impact, the safety margin of how much a helmet protects you really shines.

I do not know this as a fact, but just thinking about the logic of the numbers of how well the helmet works versus speed.

Then that begs the question, how many high and low impacts are there?

Personally (and I do speak ONLY for myself) no matter what the scenario is, I would like to "hedge the bet" by wearing the noggin protector all the time.

 

I wonder why motorcycle racers wear the best helmet they can afford?? Full face helmets at that! Never seen anyone racing wearing just a doo rag!

 

HUH........... HD-8 if that don't make u pause, nuth'n does. GOOD POINT mate!!

I'm going back to give u a THANK YOU for that one.

 

Many have left Calif for one reason or another. But we also have people risking their very lives to get here. It all depends on your point of view.
If wearing a helmet is your "trigger" that's ok. Mine is the reduction in quality of life due to stupid people representing us politically.

 

Yea, I'm 29 and don't have much hair left (and when I did have some it was red so I'm fair skinned), so wearing a helmet keeps the sun off my head which is prone to burn. Looks a hell of a lot cooler than one of those dumb *** bandanas or do-rags!

I actually wore a full face even when I did have hair (and I live in one of the 3 states with absolutely no helmet law). Anything I can do to up my odds of surviving is a no brainer to me. Convinced my dad to start wearing one too after he spent 30 years without.