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Could wearing a motorcycle helmet increase your chance of injury?
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No no no: We can fix most stuff from the neck down, but severe brain injury, not so much. The only protection you have for the one head you have is a helmet. When FL repealed its helmet law, MC deaths went from around 20 to about 200 in one year. Think about it.
Answered 9/28/2016
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