A helmet is not a suit of armour
Last week a cyclist was struck and killed by a taxi cab at the intersection of Peel and Rene Levesque streets in Montreal. This was the 16th death and the 5th cyclist to lose his life on Montreal streets so far this year.
As is often the case when this happens, the resulting news coverage was succinct (to say the least) and mentioned the death as "resulting from a collision" before stressing that the cyclist was going the wrong way and was not wearing a helmet.
