Hospital stadistics regarding people who go to the emergency room after roller skating accidents indicate the
The notion that protective gear reduces the injures suffered in accidents seems at first glance to be an obvious conclusion. After all, it is the intend of these products of either prevent accidents from ocurring in the first place or to reduce the injures suffered by the wearer whether an accident ocurrs. However, the conclusion that investing in high quality protective gear greatly reduces the risk of being severly injured in accident may mask other (and potentially more significant) causes of injures and inspire people to over invest finantially and psychologically in protective gear. ... Preventive gear is intent to warn others, presumably the most part motorists, of the presence of the roller skater. ... Protective gear does little, if anything, to prevent accidents but it is presumed to reduced the injures suffered in an accident.