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Path: number6.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!a23g2000vbl.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <6641b6b5-77e9-4380-ad69-4a5b4be5ea07@a23g2000vbl.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Victoria (Australia) - recent report on cycling casualties Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 02:11:51 -0700 (PDT) References: <6fd18b8e-c512-4d00-aa2b-6b097ef1f8e9@a7g2000yqk.googlegroups.com>  Lines: 20 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.156.248.79 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1239441111 780 127.0.0.1 (11 Apr 2009 09:11:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 09:11:51 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: a23g2000vbl.googlegroups.com; posting-host=81.156.248.79; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.8) Gecko/2009032609 Firefox/3.0.8 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 2227 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:694552

On Apr 6, 9:07=A0am, "Just zis Guy, you know?"  wrote: > On Sun, 5 Apr 2009 16:28:33 -0700 (PDT), Squashme >  said in > <6fd18b8e-c512-4d00-aa2b-6b097ef1f...@a7g2000yqk.googlegroups.com>: > > >New report may interest some. Apparently, "of the 30 cyclists with a > >fatal injury for whom coronial data were available, 23 (77%) wore a > >helmet, a proportion consistent with a 1994 Victorian survey of helmet > >wearing." > > Yup, this is what's been found in all helmet law jurisdictions, as > far as I know. =A0The proportion of head injured cyclists who are > helmeted is the same as the proportion of cyclists who are helmeted. > It's not really a surprise, most hospital presentations are due to > road traffic collisions and as we are all well aware helmets are > simply not designed for that.

Why did you lie about saying that you encouraged your children to wear helmets?