Helmet said to protect cyclist in truck smash

If Giro wants a real-life good news story about the protective capabilities of its products, here’s one on a plate.

Thanks to a news story fed to US media outlets by the Associated Press, a ‘helmet-saved-my-life’ story to beat all others is currently appearing in American regional newspapers.

Ryan Lipscomb a graduate student in medical physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was riding down a bike path in Madison on Friday afternoon when he was hit by a truck at an intersection.

Lipscomb said the truck rolled over his head. There was no witness to this.

Lipscomb told journalists:

“I didn’t see [the truck] coming, but I sure felt it roll over my head. It feels really strange to have a truck run over your head.”

His Giro helmet is shown to be cracked in the picture here but none of the journalists covering the story have asked the obvious question: how could an extremely heavy truck run over a lightweight helmet without crushing it completely. Ditto for the brainbox within.

Check out this children’s TV video on how bicycle helmets are made:
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And here’s another video, from an American news channel, on why bicycle helmet legislation might not be such a good idea…because of risk homeostasis:

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