<snip> > As for skiing, after having a kid ski at high speed just past my ear, > I would agree with Matt again that helmets and padding are advisable on > snow. Several skiers have been killed or injured on Mt. Hood recently by > being run down from behind by others. None of the victims wore a helmet. > Would it be outrageous to suggest that motorists wear a helmet? > > Brad I clearly remember seeing something in the automotive press back in the ... oh ... 1960s maybe ... where they were advocating helmets for passenger car drivers. Knowing that the average driver wouldn't likely be keen on wearing what passed for a racing helmet in those days, they had come up with a series of designs that superficially looked like regular hats but which were hard shelled with some padding. One model looked like a fedora, IIRC, and one looked like those hats that Jackie Stewart wears. I can't remember what they're called. Given that seat-belts are now mandatary -- we all wear them, don't we? -- and that interior car design has come a *long* way since the 1960s, I'm not sure if helmets for car passengers is really going to help much. Other than destroying ornate hair-dos, they're not going to hurt either. -- Darryl *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Mar 27 2007 - 13:21:19 PDT
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