the mcintosh et al study on rotational acceleration and bicycle helmets i have restored the reference to this study in the rotational injury section of the article someone had removed it and substituted a reference to a another study by mcintosh et al which deals only with motorcycle helmets unfortunately it seems the publisher has made a mistake and the mcintosh et al paper and one other paper are missing from the online journal contents you can see the gap in the page numbers for that issue the corresponding author is endeavouring to have that corrected but the paper does exist i have seen a copy of it it isn't indexed in pubmed yet either in the meantime i will post of a copy of the abstract from the paper here andrew s mcintosh adrian lai and edgar schilter bicycle helmets head impact dynamics in helmeted and unhelmeted oblique impact tests traffic injury prevention online doi objective to assess the factors including helmet use that contribute to head linear and angular acceleration in bicycle crash simulation tests method a series of laboratory tests was undertaken using an oblique impact rig the impact rig included a drop assembly with a hybrid iii head and neck the head struck a horizontally moving striker plate head linear and angular acceleration and striker plate force were measured the head injury criterion was derived the following test parameters were varied drop height to a maximum of m horizontal speed to a maximum of km h helmet no helmet impact orientation location and restraint adjustment additional radial impacts were conducted on the same helmet models for comparison purposes descriptive statistics were derived and multiple regression was applied to examine the role of each parameter results helmet use was the most significant factor in reducing the magnitude of all outcome variables linear acceleration and the head injury criterion were influenced by the drop height whereas angular acceleration tended to be influenced by the horizontal speed and impact orientation location the restraint adjustment influenced the outcome variables with lower coefficients of variation observed with the tight restraint conclusions the study reinforces the benefits of wearing a bicycle helmet in a crash the study also demonstrates that helmets do not increase angular head acceleration the study assists in establishing the need for an agreed upon international oblique helmet test as well as the boundary conditions for oblique helmet testing