spoiler alert: drivers. it’s all drivers’ fault
you don’t make an activity safer by discouraging people from doing it 🤷♀️
Bike helmets are a good idea no matter what cars are doing. You can die from a stationary fall from a bike by hitting your head on the pavement without a helmet. Happened to a person in my friend circle. Girl died on the fucking sidewalk after falling off her bike with no helmet.
@RaoulDook @salarua Worth mentioning per distance walked you are most likely to die walking than cycling but if someone tried to introduce a law requiring pedestrians to wear a helmet they would be ridiculed. I assume there is an air quote because helmet laws do not protect cyclists, they actively make things more dangerous
That’s hardly a fair comparison. People are going to travel much greater distances on bike than on foot.
@ch00f “per distance”
I can’t read good
Yep. After I had a pretty bad fall without a helmet I will now on always wear a helmet no matter how short the trip.
@ProgrammingSocks @RaoulDook
Me, too. In any contest between asphalt and skull, asphalt always wins. In my case, it was 60 stitches across my forehead at age 13 & luckily no TBI or spinal cord injuries.
