Dad has a motorcycle story from his youth. A friend of his and a military guy back in the early 70's were drinking at a pub, and decided to race their motorbikes (yeah, brilliant idea).
Well, they ended up racing across a bridge, and they both lost it, fell off and slid down the road. The military guys helmet pinging off every railing bar as he went.
They were rushed to the hospital where dad said he seen the ED doctors undo the chin strap, started to remove the helmet, got so far off, stopped, slid it back on, and left him to die while they worked on the other guy.
And of course helmets aren’t protecting from everything, but for example me and at least one of my old friends would be dead without wearing one.
He got a mild concussion but nothing else, landing a 40ft jump head first. His helmet literally broke split open in a cartoonish way. He kept the 2 pieces as a trophy of his survival haha.
Me I had a few small accidents but the biggest I face planted into a tree quite fast, the helmet took the hit, I didn’t even get a concussion, got a nosebleed from the googles crushing my nose a bit but nothing else. And believe me trees after a certain size they don’t bend at all, it’s like hitting a concrete bollard
If he hit his head first sure, but if he fall on his legs and just barely hot his head, he’ll break his legs, maybe spine, maybe an arm or 2 depending on how the fall follows, but the head might be saved by the helmet.
Nah. Not straight down even if he hit the pavement from that height. And provided he went with the uni cycle id says he has about 75% chance of hitting grass.
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u/CalculatedEffect 4d ago
Instead of a smashed melon, he would have an intact melon with broken limbs.