How about a pool noodle for bike safety?

[Allrounder]

clever ideas. 

[EmptyB]

Yeah that is true. Was my lucky day then. He was doing electrics that day, Maybe plumbing the following day?

Haha...yup, just as well he wasn't doing steel fencing on your day!

[Guest]

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-11411630

 

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"When the truck's wing mirror hit me on the back of the head some of the impact was absorbed by my helmet," he said, going on to say that had his helmet not done so, he would have been killed.

"I had several MRI scans in the States that confirmed I had 'rung my own bell'.

In other words, the brain had acted like a bell's hammer, swinging forward and damaging the frontal lobes. This area controls personality, decision-making, planning, concentration and motivation.

"Although I was very disorientated and agitated for some time, just knowing I'd been hit by a truck made me feel lucky to be alive."

 

James Cracknell not so lucky a few years ago.