Want to be hit by a car while riding a bicycle? Wear a helmet!

o get a greater sense of motorist-bicyclist interactions, a researcher named Dr. Ian Walker put his body on the line and went out on his bicycle, armed with a ultrasound distance meter. Now, having been passed by motorists over 2,500 times and hit twice, he reached the conclusion: drivers passed closer to a cyclist that was wearing a helmet.

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