Researchers release updated helmet safety ratings. Only a few earn five stars
John Linehan, a mechanical engineering student at Virginia Tech, measures a safety helmet, to prepare for a test to evaluate the helmet’s safety. (Credit: Roxy Todd / Radio IQ)
If you’re planning to get out on your bike this summer, or if your kids are signed up to play football this fall, do you have the safest helmet? The Virginia Tech Helmet lab recently released new ratings that rank how well hundreds of bike and football helmets protect against concussions. Roxy Todd has the details.
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