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Great care after a nasty crash and my helmet prevented brain injury

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  • December 2, 2014 at 10:32 am #22810
    Beefy

    Really nice club ride on Sunday, nice weather great friends. Unfortunately mid left bend at 20+ mph I had to brake as a 4×4 crossed the line slightly. As luck would have it my back wheel was going over a lovely cast iron manhole cover. I hit the floor with considerable force taking the rider behind me out. The car was oblivious to this. Big thank you to my club rider especially the doc who gave me so much help. When my head hit the floor I became very lightheaded and confused for a short time. On my way to hospital while experiencing a great deal of pelvic pain I took a look at my helmet, the outside was heavily scuffed but inside it had cracked right across the impact area. Though I have a big lump on my head it was still intact! thank you Lazer helmets.

    I’m not saying people should wear helmets as I believe it should be a choice but I won’t be riding with out a helmet.

    As it turns out I have badly damaged my pelvis and I can’t quite walk at the moment.on the upside I’m alive with no brain injury and I will be babk on bike in a few months.

    My main point however is the quality of care I recieved from Southport AED and there observation ward. Brilliant, I read a lot of negative press about our doctors and nurses and I feel that the good things they do are over looked. I could not have wished for better care.

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  • December 3, 2014 at 10:22 am #822273
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    bdsl

    I’m not going to slam my head
    I’m not going to slam my head at 23mph into tarmac, but then neither did beefy. Presumably they were cycling along the road at 23mph, not cycling into a tarmac wall at that speed. I think doing that would cause major head trauma with or without a helmet.

    December 3, 2014 at 9:21 am #822271
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    Simon E

    Not trolling, just
    Not trolling, just disagreeing.

    People on both sides of this argument are understandably passionate but it shouldn’t descend into name-calling.

    I am 100% pro choice, am not anti-helmet and have never, ever criticised anyone for choosing to wear/not wear a helmet. I just wish the “helmet saved my life” people wouldn’t spend so much time trying to convince everyone that they are right (and non-wearers are therefore wrong). It is not that simple.

    Learning how to ride in traffic, anticipating hazards and so on will do far more for your life expectancy than a polystyrene hat. As Chris Boardman said recently, a helmet “isn’t even in the top 10 things that will really keep people who want to cycle safe.” – http://road.cc/134586

    December 3, 2014 at 9:02 am #822269
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    Beefy

    I am pro choice and don’t
    I am pro choice and don’t belive people should be forced to wear helmets, I’m simply pointing out that in this particular case it helped, surely choice is about balancing two arguments and making a decision. As for the question of how I know it helped, try slamming the side of you head against Tarmac at 23 mph then see if you have a bump on you hear or if you have major head trauma I suspect major head trauma may result.

    I didn’t wear body armour because as painful as it is muscoskelital injuries generally don’t cause brain damage which I’m sure you know controls most aspects of our nervous system.

    I do belive that people can say,” I don’t care I don’t want to wear a lid”. That’s fine in my book as forcing helmets is a slipper slope. I’m just telling you what happened in this incident.

    As for imagination, I was treated by a Scottish and English nurse, a South African and Spanish medic paid for by the tax we all pay in the UK and given the massive back door cuts the NHSis under and the lack of a pay rise for staff in 4 years, the treatment was great. But I think That imagination would be more suitable for a different forum perhaps not a cycling one.

    As for the sarcasm, that is unfortunately growing on road cc, I thought this site was for fellow cyclist to discuss things not trolls sitting behind a computer with one hand down there trousers.

    December 3, 2014 at 7:55 am #822267
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    OnTheRopes

    At work on a construction
    At work on a construction site I once took my helmet off just for a few minutes because it was hot weather. I placed it on the tracks of a 21 tonne excavator. When I turned my back the excavator moved off and drove over my helmet flattening it completely.
    I have kept the flat helmet as a reminder of how lucky I was that I wasn’t wearing the helmet at the time.
    Not wearing it ultimately saved my life.

    December 3, 2014 at 12:56 am #822265
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    bdsl

    Helmets aren’t designed to
    Helmets aren’t designed to protect your head by cracking, they protect your head by squashing. If the EPS foam was squashed in the accident then it did something to protect your head, if not it probably didn’t do much to reduce the impact.

    It’s very hard to tell in any particular case what sort of injury someone would have had had they not been wearing a helmet. I’m sure it would have been worse, but perhaps not very much worse.

    People sometimes look at a cracked helmet and say things like ‘it would be my skull cracked instead if I didn’t have the helmet’ but of course bone is much tougher than EPS.

    December 3, 2014 at 12:12 am #822263
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    hsiaolc

    paulrbarnard wrote:I think

    paulrbarnard wrote:
    I think Beafy’s inclusion of helmets in his post was far more on topic than your mention of immigration. What the Fuck has that got to do with cycling, helmets or pelvic thrusts (or inability to do them at the moment as the case might be). Pot meet kettle and all that.

    Calm down. I can understand your frustration. When dealing with someone like that the best way is to ignore them completely.

    Anyway to ignore certain members post completely?

    December 2, 2014 at 11:10 pm #822261
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    Simon E

    paulrbarnard wrote:I think

    paulrbarnard wrote:
    I think Beafy’s inclusion of helmets in his post was far more on topic than your mention of immigration. What the Fuck has that got to do with cycling, helmets or pelvic thrusts (or inability to do them at the moment as the case might be). Pot meet kettle and all that.

    Trying to make the point about issues like NHS and the way the media twist stuff and set the agenda. Yes it was long-winded and strayed OT (a fault of mine, I admit but I’m not alone). Sadly it seems that, despite my efforts, you missed the point. Oh well, at least I tried. How about you have a try?

    December 2, 2014 at 10:47 pm #822259
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    paulrbarnard

    I think Beafy’s inclusion of
    I think Beafy’s inclusion of helmets in his post was far more on topic than your mention of immigration. What the Fuck has that got to do with cycling, helmets or pelvic thrusts (or inability to do them at the moment as the case might be). Pot meet kettle and all that.

    December 2, 2014 at 9:43 pm #822257
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    Simon E

    Sorry to hear you got hurt,
    Sorry to hear you got hurt, hope you get back on the bike soon.

    Have you ever considered wearing some protection around your pelvis? It would certainly have saved you from a nasty injury 😉

    Seriously, if you are pro-choice and don’t want to proselytise why even mention the h-word? And why put it in the title of the post?

    Great to know that the NHS treated you well. Most people who use it recognise the uncaring, unprofessional, “broken” health service that the muckraking ‘media’ would have us believe. My mum has unfortunately just been in hospital 3 times in just over a week. She was treated brilliantly and is extremely grateful.

    I rarely read/watch mainstream media now but when I do their agenda is clear: we must be kept fearful. Cameron’s recent speech on immigration is an example – the only other voice allowed was UKIP. No chance for a counter-argument. The message: “immigrants are definitely bad, we’re only arguing about exactly what to do about them”. If I was an immigrant living here I may be genuinely fearful for my safety. And we think of ourselves as a civilised nation… I despair!

    December 2, 2014 at 11:30 am #822255
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    gdmor10

    The helmet debate goes around
    The helmet debate goes around in circles but as I always say, riding without a helmet is not a problem, it is hitting the ground with your head where the problems start.

    Good you are mostly okay!

    December 2, 2014 at 10:52 am #822253
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    farrell

    Last night a DJ saved my
    Last night a DJ saved my life.

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