Motorcycle helmet-really worth it?

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Expert author Kevin Cundick

With fuel prices soaring and the American family budget is thin and elongated motorcycle thin, because, of course only becoming increasingly popular due to increasing fuel consumption.

Motorcycle, because the more weight they take less space of your car or truck, to see. This loss of visibility is more likely to be involved for motorcycle collisions than other vehicles. The absence of motorcycles, other protection vehicles such as a car or truck, heavy damage is more likely.

In researching this article, I find that there are conflicting reports whether the motorcycle helmet actually help to reduce injury.

It is estimated, for example, that according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration unhelmeted riders are rather fatal head injury suffered 40% and 15% more likely to have a non-fatal head injury as a driver, while is. Another report published by Dr. Jonathan Goldstein Bowdoin College States "it was concluded that motorcycle helmet (1) has no significant influence on the severity of injuries of the neck increases the likelihood of death and (2) critical impact velocity, helmets in the past".

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I have a national security report special report examines the Administration in Congress, code, 1995 and 1999 was used in order to prove otherwise. Here is an example: "minimum effective helmets prevent injuries mostly" derived from studies in 1995. Then from the 1999 study, "... "Helmets are 67% percent effective in preventing brain injuries and unhelmeted motorcyclists crash injury involved as they are over three times more likely to wear helmets suffered."

This example shows two messages for motorcyclists who sent mixed. To better illustrate this here is an example of mixed messages:

Car crash 45.5% of all patients and are responsible for all deaths from 37,1% where the head injury (journal of trauma, 1989), which shows that the car is more dangerous than a motorcycle.

Motorist Miles about 26 times as much as the car dead car accident passenger traffic and is about 5 times so often violated are per vehicle. (NHTSA'S traffic safety facts 2002), indicating that the occupants of the car is much less likely than a biker was injured.

Trauma centers operator injured motor approved the results compared to other trauma victims have the severity of the damage. The hospital costs are lower. They are less likely to rely on Medicaid and Medicare, and trauma they have roughly at the level of commercial or private insurance as other victims of the crash. (University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center, June 1992), which showed that the driver may be less in the hospital.