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Originally Posted by allanoue

Do you disagree with the CDC's estimates?

wearing helmets. Helmets are estimated to prevent 37 percent of crash deaths among motorcycle riders and 41 percent of crash deaths for motorcycle passengers.

Its more like 30%. But the point is, in 70% of fatalities, the helmet was ineffective at saving the rider's life. But again, that's not an argument against helmets, its just calling a spade a spade.

As a side note, I looked at the crash area on google street view and I don't think it was speed related. The turn simply isn't that sharp. Even a Harley should have been able to make that turn at 70mph. I'm thinking the cager girl in the truck guessed correctly when she said 50 mph. My guess is that he was distracted somehow and the turn came up on him suddenly. From the descriptions, it sounds like he was veering before he even got to the curve.