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Originally Posted by geckoGT
Been to hundreds, if not thousands of this type of accident, most walk out with little injury, rarely an injury requiring hospital admission. By the way, I'll take the barina if that is all that is on offer but I would prefer my Mini.
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Sorry, I was referring to the damage to the car. The way it was written was like "it's only a little bit of whiplash".
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Originally Posted by geckoGT
A lot more than you think, there is enough foam and energy absorption to take enough force out of an impact in the average riding accident, which is the type of accident that many here say do not require a helmet. It is not the extreme riding situations (100 km/h decent on a road bike or MTB downhill racing etc) that the average helmet is designed for, it is designed for the average crash for the average rider (unless you get into really high end competition helmets like mine). That absorption of impact not only reduces direct injury (head) but reduces indirect injury (neck).
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Are you referring to a straight on impact (compression)? Are compression fractures, in the neck, common for an unhelmeted victim?
I was thinking more along the lines of an incident that places the head in a position where it applies significant leverage to the neck. Not a straight on impact.