Post by afl on Jul 4, 2011 9:43:27 GMT 10
Helmet-law protester dies from head injury
A MOTORCYCLIST protesting helmet laws has been killed when he was thrown off his motorcycle and suffered a head injury.
Police said 55-year-old Philip A. Contos was not wearing a helmet when he rode with a group of bikers on Saturday afternoon in Onondaga, New York as part of a helmet-laws protest organized by the group American Bikers Aimed Towards Education, the Post-Standard reported.
Contos hit the brakes on his motorcycle, skidded, lost control and was thrown over the handlebars. He was taken to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead, police said.
An attending physician said Contos would have likely survived the accident if he had been wearing a regulation helmet.
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A MOTORCYCLIST protesting helmet laws has been killed when he was thrown off his motorcycle and suffered a head injury.
Police said 55-year-old Philip A. Contos was not wearing a helmet when he rode with a group of bikers on Saturday afternoon in Onondaga, New York as part of a helmet-laws protest organized by the group American Bikers Aimed Towards Education, the Post-Standard reported.
Contos hit the brakes on his motorcycle, skidded, lost control and was thrown over the handlebars. He was taken to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead, police said.
An attending physician said Contos would have likely survived the accident if he had been wearing a regulation helmet.
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