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Ever since the Natasha Richardson tragic death, we have lost count of the number of times we have been asked by friends and work colleagues if we ski wearing helmets.
Is this something others are now finding?
Ironically we were in Canada at the time and I bought a helmet there this year (though it didn’t help, other than keeping me head warm as I twisted my knee  )
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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HTH 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I reply that I saw on TV that someone died after crossing the road.......so I have stopped crosing roads.
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rob and sharon, not been asked by anyone coz all my friends and colleagues know I wear a helmet.
But you might be interested in two articles:
1. Last summer a 50 year old man died of similar brain haemorrhage after a football game.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2235026/Man-dies-of-brain-haemorrhage-after-heading-football.html
I don't remember any bans on heading the ball, or demands for helmets for football players.
2. One of the leading experts on ski accidents and helmets is Jasper E. Shealy.
He published an article the end of last year: "Do Helmets Reduce Fatalities or merely Alter the Patterns of Death?"
Journal of ASTM International. November 2008. (JAI) 5 (10).
He concludes that helmets have no influence on fatalities: "Even though the prevalence of helmet utilization is rising by 4 to 5 percent per year in the U.S., there has been no statistically significant observable effect on the incident of fatality." (page 5 of his article)
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Jonpim .... Splitter !!!!
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| Jonpim wrote: |
| all my friends and colleagues know I wear a helmet. |
Either they are unuasually anxious about your well being or you might want to consider conversation classes.
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None, I think they all want me to die.
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| rob and sharon wrote: |
Ever since the Natasha Richardson tragic death, we have lost count of the number of times we have been asked by friends and work colleagues if we ski wearing helmets
Ever since the Natasha Richardson tragic death, we have lost count of the number of times we have been asked by friends and work colleagues if we ski wearing helmets.
Is this something others are now finding? .... |
Nope.
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I'm with Mosha Marc and achilles in the 'no one gives a stuff whether I wear one or not' camp 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Schuss in Boots, same here. I'm very envious of Jonpim.
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Since Natasha Richardson's death several people at work have commented, saying they hope I wear a helmet, first time it's ever been mentioned. I'm not sure whether they value me, or the business information I hold in my head 
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You know it makes sense.
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Schuss in Boots, do you wear a helmet?
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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and ..nope..
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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nbt, YUP. A few.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Yup... and my mum phoned to check that the kids wear helmets - she's obviously not bothered about me LOL!
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once, but only after a friend of his ended up in a coma while skiing not wearing one so I think that is fair enough.
I get constantly questioned by my flatmates though on why I wear a helmet for mountainbiking but not for cycling to lectures. I was bloody grateful of it too on wedensday when I took just about the hardest crash I have ever taken and walked away with 'just' a broken collarbone but could have been very different had I not been wearing a fullface.
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Strangely enough, despite my husband's accident, none of my friends and family have enquired about whether we wear helmets.
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| Jonpim wrote: |
| He concludes that helmets have no influence on fatalities: "Even though the prevalence of helmet utilization is rising by 4 to 5 percent per year in the U.S., there has been no statistically significant observable effect on the incident of fatality." (page 5 of his article) |
Given the tiny number of people killed in skiing accidents each year, the study would have to go on for years and years and years to produce any statistically significant results.
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Helen Beaumont, Would it have been a factor in JulesB's case?
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