Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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6966256 | Accident Analysis & Prevention | 2013 | 10 Pages |
Abstract
Wearing a cycle helmet was found to reduce the probability of head injuries, reducing the average probability of fatality over the scenarios studied from 40% to 0.3%. Similarly, helmet wearing reduced the probability of neck injuries (average probability of fatality reduced from 11% to 1%). There was no evidence that helmet wearing increased the severity of brain or neck injuries caused by rotational accelerations; in fact these were slightly reduced. Similarly, there was no evidence that increased cycling speed, such as might result from helmet related risk compensation, increased the probability of head injury
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Authors
D.S. McNally, N.M. Rosenberg,