Still Think a Full Face Helmet is Worthless?

by Stacy on February 6, 2009

Here’s the aftermath of one accident:

All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth...

Accident 1: All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth...

And a second accident:

Feeling the wind in my hair is sure worth eating my food through a straw.

Feeling the wind in my hair is sure worth eating my food through a straw.

All the girls love my broken-in-half jawline!

All the girls love my broken-in-half jawline!

From Surfactant’s photostream on Flickr, via The Scooter Scoop


{ 3 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Ken Linder February 7, 2009 at 9:11 pm

That is one seriously smashed up skull. I think I know what I want for my b-day this year.

2 Stacy February 7, 2009 at 11:48 pm

I’m still pretty shocked myself. The bottom two are just, ick, too painful to look at. According to the person who posted the images, the patient wasn’t wearing any helmet at all. However, they survived — throwing the whole “oh, if I wreck I’m just going to die anyway so it’s not worth wearing a helmet” argument out the window as well. I don’t even want to know what kind of soft tissue damage occurred. Hope they had good maxillofacial and plastic surgeons.

Speaking of surgeons, I had my wisdom teeth extracted by a maxillofacial surgeon this summer. Turns out he’s the on-call oral and maxillofacial surgeon at the ER for the local hospital too. I’m still kicking myself for not asking him about motorcyclists that have come through his operating room.

3 Torch March 11, 2009 at 5:09 am

Thanks for the reminder. I may upgrade from my half helmets sometime in the future.

Ride on
Torch

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