^ I'll preface my comment by saying that I have very little tolerance for both the pro and anti helmet Nazis. I generally detest hardliners of most stripes.
That said, as a daily bike commuter here in Chicago for the past 12 years, I have twice been struck by motor vehicles while riding and been thrown to the ground with enough force to put big nasty cracks in the helmets I was wearing on both occasions. Were it not for the helmets cracking, it very likely would have been my skull, with the commensurate serious brain injury to go along with it.
Needless to say, I will wear a helmet while riding in car traffic til the day I die.
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