Ski Insurance Company Makes Helmet Wearing Obligatory

I had a reply from Crystal stating that in the Piedmonte region of Italy, under 18 's are required to wear helmets. Apparently this law was introduced last winter however my son skied with his school in April this year and only under 14's were legally required to wear them. Don't know whether to buy one or hire when we get there.

Stewart Dowling wrote:

Tony_H wrote:

andyhull wrote:Who wouldn't want one of these?

who in their right mind would????

That's well cool

I prefer a couple of their existing designs myself. Particularly the blue raindrop one.

I was at a real snow centre this morning, probably 50+ skiers/boarders there, and I noticed only two persons without helmets.

Just an observation.

I've got 32 going to Meribel in January, 30 of them are helmet wearers. Not sure about the other two.
I'd not be surprised al all if all 32 had lids on.

and they are relatively cheap and a wide range of design choice. Bought this one today for my eldest girl and it was half the price of my new gloves. :oops:

Stewart Dowling wrote:

Tony_H wrote:

andyhull wrote:Who wouldn't want one of these?

who in their right mind would????

That's well cool

I rest my case

Dorset Boy wrote:Have they invested a new helmet that stops the brain smashing the inside of the skull?
It's not the smash on the outside, it's the brain hitting the inside of the skull that will cause the fatality.

The helmet will prevent other injuries, but is unlikely to prevent the fatal one.

A good helmet should dissipate the energy of the impact and reduce the rate of decelleration of the skull and with it the impact of the brain hitting the skull.

It won't prevent all fatalities in the same way seat belts don't stop all decelleration fatalities in car crashes. However they are likely to push the boundaries of differing grades of inury further up the impact scale. An impact that might have caused a sore head may become nothing, a bout of concussion a sore head, a mild brain injury becomes concussion, major brain injury becomes mild, death becomes a major brain injury.
Some levels of impact will always be fatal with or without a helmet - it's the ones below that we have to consider.
Is it likely to be measurable?- not easy to quantify the severity of head injuries at different impact speeds as human trials wouldn't get past the ethic comnittee and animal trials would be hard to support and crash test dummies just tell you about the physics.

It's down to personal choice for adults.
For insurers it's down to the actuaries.

You pays your money

Interesting that's is helmet wearers who are counting the number of helmet wearers.

Honest observation from a bobbler: far more people are wearing helmets in the resorts I've been to in the last few years. I'd say lidders probably outnumber bobblers these days, but its still incorrect to suggest not wearing a lid is bad or unacceptable.

Being something of a nonconformist myself, I'm quite happy that bobblers are somewhat frowned upon by a section of the lid wearing fraternity. It's makes us even cooler.

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