My car doesn't have side impact airbags. Would driving with a bicycle or motorcycle helmet keep me safer?

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I don't care how ridiculous I look - just curious if it would help my chances if I was in a car crash.
@ angel - I'm talking about wearing a helmet while driving a CAR. Good grief.

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It is better to avoid the collision, then you don't have to worry about getting hurt. To avoid a collision you need to observe everything around you; which involves moving the head every few seconds as you scan to the sides for incoming traffic. ANY additional weight on the head impairs the ability to move it, slows that movement, and just ever so slightly increases your risk of a collision. I am such a driver. Anything that makes it more likely that I will be involved in a collision is a bad thing. I do take off my hat when I drive.

However -- if you are *not* an obsessed paranoid driver that is constantly moving your head as you drive, a helmet would not interfere with *your* driving, and you would be marginally safer with one.

How did you get initiated your freshman year?

Melissa

I didn't get initiated..I was friends with upper class-man.

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All the freshmen at my high school were given really horrible looking hats they had to wear everyday for a week at school. Each freshmen had a senior sister (I went to an all girls high school). Thank GOD my Senior sister was nice. She made me probably the best looking hat of all of them. One girl had to wear a bicycle helmet with burnt popcorn glued all over the top LOL!! IT WAS HILARIOUS. That helmet stunk though haha.

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