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Post by General_Malaise on Sept 30, 2009 20:59:12 GMT -6
AAA to me has no credibility whatsoever when it comes to anything related to motor vehicles. There was probably a time long before any of us were born that they did have some credibility, those days are long gone. Today they are a combination travel and insurance agency no more no less. I wish that they would accept this and keep quiet about things that they know nothing about.
Sorry that helmet article was so long, but it raises some very good questions about the actual safety value of the helmets available to those who wear them.
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Post by General_Malaise on Jan 22, 2010 19:04:25 GMT -6
Another helmet situation:
'Freak' Heli-Skiing Accident Kills Woman in Colorado
Monday, January 18, 2010
TELLURIDE, Colo. — A heli-skiing accident has killed a woman who fell into a creek and apparently drowned when her helmet got stuck between two rocks.
Fifty-year-old Mary Scott King, of Huntington Beach, Calif., was heli-skiing with a guide in the Mineral Creek Basin near Telluride Saturday morning when she crossed a creek.
The San Miguel County Sheriff's Office says King fell in the water and that her helmet became wedged between two rocks. The guide was unable to free her, and she drowned.
San Miguel County Sheriff Bill Masters called the death "one of those freak things."
Heli-skiing is backcountry downhill skiing in which skiers are delivered by helicopter, not a ski lift.
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