Even though bike helmets are designed to lessen the impact in one particular spot and disperse the force throughout the helmet. The helmet however is not the most safest thing to but in our society. Most manufactures today tend to make helmets that have a lot of holes and are made for fashion instead of for being a good helmet. The plastic coating on most helmets is there to prevent less friction when you are sliding down on your head. The air holes on the helmet provide better air flow and a fresh new style but they lessen the fact of the force upon impact will have less of a space to disperse the force into. Do not get me wrong all the bicycle helmets on the market pass at least the minimum of the standard. In Austrailia the market had to lower the standard of their helmets because they were soo expensive, so that people would buy t

The main age groups for people that got into accidents in the early 1990’s wre ages 10-18

Being in a bike accident is a very tramatizing thing to go through. I went through several accidents, but one accident in particular knocked some sense into me about helmet safety.

I was talking to a friend several years after this happened. He said that he saw the whole thing. He said that some passing motorists were kind enough to be throwing stuff out their window and apparently one of those objects hit me in the head. Which means that if I was wearing my helmet this whole incident could have been avoided.

The one thing that I did learn from all this was to always where my helmet, which I still do practice. Especially since now there is a law in California that now states that people must wear bicycle Helmets. The First year that this law was put into effect more people started wearing helmets, there was an increase of about 30%. This still means that about 50% of people never wear helmets. Today there are an estimated 80.6 million riders, 43 percent of whom never wear helmets and 7 percent of whom wear helmets less than half the time. For instance 69 percent of children under 16 wear a helmet on a regular basis while riding a bike, according to parents. While 38 percent of adult bike riders regularly wear their helmets. Of bikers who now report wearing a helmet, 98 percent said they wore a helmet for safety reasons, 70 percent said they wore a helmet because a parent or spouse insisted on it and 44 percent said they did so because a law required it.

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