Yes this guy would likely be dead if he did have his helmet on. However the neck break factor is real not a myth. Greg Haynes a friend of mine in Arkansas lives in a wheel chair because that very factor. Granted he would be dead other wise. Given the choice dead or wheelchair I choose dead. Now having said this I must add. That it is not a good reason to choose not to wear a helmet. Whether you wear one or not man up and say. Its my choice and I made it then live with the results.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. Edgar Allan Poe