Effectiveness of wearing a bicycle helmet for impacts against the front of a vehicle and the road surface.

CONCLUSIONS: Wearing a helmet reduces skull fracture risk when the frontal and lateral parts of the helmet impact vehicle parts (excluding the hood) at 35 km/h and the road surface at 20 km/h. However, when the lateral part of the helmet impacts the B-pillar, the helmet cannot effectively reduce the skull fracture risk at these real-world velocities.
PMID: 30001152 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Traffic Injury Prevention - July 12, 2018 Category: Accident Prevention Authors: Matsui Y, Oikawa S, Hosokawa N Tags: Traffic Inj Prev Source Type: research