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This is why you should wear a helmet on a bike
https://metro.co.uk/2018/07/11/wear-helmet-bike-7705704/#mv-a
Does anyone know how the lad came to be “knocked off”?
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I'll bite: as others have said, how can we argue pointlessly about this matter unless we have some more detail on what the kid was doing or what the circumstances were of his being knocked off?
(I mean, the photos make it look like a breeze-block dropped on his head, and no bike helmet would protect against that!)
The Mirror article makes the briefest possible mention of a van that was involved:
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/policewomans-powerful-warning-after-blood-12829176
There's no mention of the circumstances, so we can only assume that the van driver was so shocked to see a cyclist without a helmet that they had to knock him off his bike to ensure that it wasn't an hallucination.
Okay people, I have my popcorn ready...aaand...GO!
I saw that article... the elephant in the room did as you say seem to be how did he end up knocked off! All I've been able to glean from the interweb is that it was a collision with a van.
Lucky lad anyhow by the look of it. Ouch.
Shouldn't the headline read "This is why you shouldn't knock people off their bikes."?
Get well soon, little dude.
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