{"id":12062,"date":"2013-06-04T18:30:42","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T00:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=12062"},"modified":"2013-06-04T19:56:32","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T01:56:32","slug":"grist-org-do-helmets-really-keep-cyclists-safer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=12062","title":{"rendered":"Grist.org | Do helmets really keep cyclists safer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/no_helmet_father_son.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-12063\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/no_helmet_father_son.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"465\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/no_helmet_father_son.jpg 465w, https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/no_helmet_father_son-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/no_helmet_father_son-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 465px) 100vw, 465px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There\u2019s even a case to be made that helmets actually increase the risk of injury. Institute of Transport Economics researchers Aslak Fyhri and Ross O. Phillips &#8216;found that after having removed their helmets, routine helmet users cycled more slowly and demonstrated increased psychophysiological load.&#8217; In other words, helmet-wearers might be engaging in riskier cycling behavior than they might if they went bare.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article at Grist.org:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/grist.org\/cities\/do-helmets-really-keep-cyclists-safer\/\">Do helmets really keep cyclists safer?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There\u2019s even a case to be made that helmets actually increase the risk of injury. Institute of Transport Economics researchers Aslak Fyhri and Ross O. Phillips &#8216;found that after having [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":12063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[236,25],"class_list":["post-12062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more-articles","tag-bicycles","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12062"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12067,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12062\/revisions\/12067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}