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A study of 479 children age 4 to 18 at a Massachusetts clinic found that most wear helmets improperly. Researchers say 73 percent reported “always” or “almost always” wearing a helmet, up from 18 percent in 1991, but only 20 children, or 4 percent, passed a test for proper fit. The most common errors were that the helmet rested too high on the forehead, the strap did not fit around the ears or the helmet slid too easily on the head. Any of those conditions exposes the front of the head, the most common site of impact in a collision, according to study author Gregory Parkinson.
