I am a testimony of the helmet's life saving feature. My husband and I were on a bike trip to the sea and on our way back home, the back tire suddenly died, causing a motorcycle accident. A light one, thanks God, but equally dangerous and shocking. I remember the moment my helmet protected head hit the asphalt. I'd be literally dead without it. But with it? My husband got minor injurries and I just got light scratches and bruises. Another thing that saved me was the kind of bag that you wear around your hips. My lip balsm in the pocket was reduced to dust by the impact of the fall.

My 22 YO son refused to wear a helmet cycling all his life… until I shared this post with him today. I am so relieved that he's decided not to risk his life any longer. Outstanding public service message! Thanks, Bored Panda.

Helmets are exceptionally important, but what about the rest of your body? Not much point having an intact brain, when the rest of you is smeared down the road after a nice long slide! I see way too many youtube vids of people in jeans and t-shirts at ridiculous speeds. No helmet will help. Come off at those speeds, it's all over. Here's me, in my usual kit... P4165721.jpg Looking like a Power Ranger isn't mandatory, but for the love of God, wear some leathers (or a vegetarian alternative, such as Cordura, Kevlar, Ballistic Nylon etc...) P4165721-5...5f3cb1.jpg

Amazing post! It's such a strange- and horrible thing to see so many people simply shrugging at the importance of using a helmet. People who actually get into an accident and get injured badly do not realize that it can lead to permenant damage or even death. Especially to those who think: "Nah, an accident won't happen to me". As downside extra: it can have a big negative impact to those who saw the accident and the family of the victim. And sometimes it can be easily prevented. By JUST using a helmet.

My husband wears a helmet mowing the backyard to deflect oncoming golf balls.

A bike helmet saved my life too!

So, you folks that are not going to hear a helmet or hard hat out of site/revolt against the government, your parents, your boss, or whoever -- there's an old saying about cutting off your nose to spite your face... How about bashing in your skull and dumping your brains on the floor to spite somebody? WEAR THE DAMNED SAFETY GEAR!!!!

helmet for biker and seat belt for driver ..both save lives

disappointed no imperial stormtrooper helmets damage with a blaster.

With my full face moto helmet another plus is that I can sing in there and noby knows it, plus great accoustics. I also dig not getting chapped lips.

This made me think of Michael Schumacher. It's so horrible his helmet didn't help him at all.

crock of s**t, helmets for cycling have being proven to be detrimental not just to safety but to freedom of choice and also induces victim blaming. cycle helmets are too flimsy and don't do sick otherwise the stats would have picked this up. They simply don't, you only need look at the effects in Australia and NZ when they introduced compulsion for all ages to see the negative effects!

looks like harley davidson is more of a status symbol whether or not you can hadle riding one is not even a concern size for your ability and never never never drink and ride reaction time is hard without drinking be safe keep it on 2 wheels and upright

My husband was in a motorcycle crash his helmet did not save his life. His helmet when flying off into a tree.

I have been in one really bad motorcycle accident my boyfriend at the time was driving he went to turn and bam out of no where a car hits is he flew off the bike about a foot away me I was lucky I only got a mean road rash and a broken arm his helmet and mine both saved our life's his specially if his helmet wasn't on when he hit the wall he would have been gone

Read this on a poster in a Honda dealership: "If you have a $10.00 head wear a $10.00 helmet".

How a helmet saved my life once: I used to have a girlfriend and she was a bore. I was supposed to give her a ride after work so I brought my spare helmet. She found a long hair which was clearly not hers and broke up with me. If it wasn't for this incident we should probably be married by now.

An even better idea would be to not ride bicycles in traffic and not ride motorcycles at all. Both are reckless insanity.

I never ride my big bike without a helmet. I had one accident that broke the chin and forehead of the helmet without any head injury. The latest was an accident that left me 7 broken bones, with just a scratch on my head because my helmet was removed at mid-air after the impact because it was not properly locked.

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