&gt; You are free to make the helmet decisions you see best for yourself and loved ones.<p>Not when that is made illegal.<p>&gt; Almost three-quarters of fatal crashes (74%) involved a head injury.<p>That&#x27;s unsurprising, particularly if &#x27;head injury&#x27; includes a broken neck; people rarely die from broken wrists these days.<p>&gt; Nearly all bicyclists who died (97%) were not wearing a helmet.<p>What percentage of bicyclists don&#x27;t wear helmets?  What percentage of bicyclists in accidents don&#x27;t wear helmets?  That&#x27;s important.<p>And of course, what percentage of cyclists who died without helmets would have lived with them?  That&#x27;s the only number that counts, and every bit of research indicates that helmets only make a small improvement in survivability of certain crashes, while also increasing the rate of neck injuries and the rate of accidents in general.