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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!goblin3!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!dedekind.zen.co.uk!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!prichard.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4e341554$0$2495$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Doctors against helmet compulsion Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 15:29:40 +0100 References:   <99gl1iFedvU1@mid.individual.net>  <4PSdnbr-K7EGIK7TnZ2dnUVZ7ridnZ2d@eclipse.net.uk> Lines: 18 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 Thunderbird/3.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4PSdnbr-K7EGIK7TnZ2dnUVZ7ridnZ2d@eclipse.net.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: 6bf225af.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=26^j=iYie2H3Ma5oGk539D0g@SS;SF6nGR9OH0:RnENDil^C9_LA;ZG`:ITG5aA:cGSQ > "Just zis Guy, you know?"  wrote in message > news:pZFYp.13598$VZ6.2596@newsfe18.ams2... > >> >> I have been told by a doctor after a crash that I "must" start wearing a >> helmet or stop cycling. This despite the fact that I showed no signs or >> symptoms of any lasting damage to my head after said crash. I am >> completely certain that had I been wearing one I'd have been solemnly >> assured that it saved my life. >> > > I spent 15 minutes in A+E being berated for not wearing a helmet after I > had bust my collarbone - my head was never touched.

Your head was very nearly damaged though, wasn't it?