Florida attorney who opposed state helmet law dies in motorcycle crash while not wearing one

[SunSeeker]

Ron Smith, an experienced rider, was killed on Aug. 20 after he lost control of his motorcycle and crashed into a utility trailer. His girlfriend, Brenda Volpe, was his passenger and also died.

Smith, 66, was pronounced dead at the scene. Volpe, 62, died hours later at a hospital.

A medical examiner said Smith and Volpe died from head trauma, the Times reported. The office did not immediately return a request for comment on Wednesday.

The accident report noted that neither was wearing a helmet at the time of the crash, although it is unknown whether one would have prevented their deaths.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/florida-attorney-opposed-state-helmet-law-dies-motorcycle-crash-not-we-rcna54095

And more irony: Ron Smith was heading to a memorial service for another biker who died in August when he crashed his bike as he tried to slow for traffic in front of him.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/florida-lawyer-who-fought-helmet-laws-killed-in-motorcycle-crash-while-not-wearing-a-helmet

[LiberalFighter]

1. Which of my thoughts and prayers should I send?

[TheRealNorth]

2. But he kept his Freedumb

[SunSeeker]

11. I'm guessing this is 2 less DeSantis votes.

Three, if you count his dead biker buddy he was on his way to eulogize.

[Raster]

3. What do you call a motorcyclist without a helmet?

Organ donor.

[LiberalFighter]

6. Hopefully the other organs are more useful than his brain.

[XanaDUer2]

4. Guess they loved the wind in their hair

Yup

[Sky Jewels]

9. Until they got the pavement in their hair.

[OnDoutside]

5. Darwin Award ?

[Genki Hikari]

12. Not if they reproduced

One of the Darwin criteria is that candidates cannot have passed on their stupid genes.

[marble falls]

7. Helmets work. I know. When the pavement ground the snaps off my first helmet's visor ...

... I went and got a Bell full face helmet. 1/8" of lexan was all that was between my face and the pavement on the old one. The new one gave much better protection.

[Mad_Machine76]

8. Karmic

[Deep State Witch]

10. Old EMT Joke

From someone I know who was a former EMT.

What do you call a person riding a motorcycle without a helmet?

An organ donor.

[Genki Hikari]

13. What all hospital trauma staff always say

My mom wouldn't let us have motorcycles because she'd seen what they did to people at her hospital.

[Blue Owl]

14. The old school of hard knocks can be a bitch

Any thinking adult should know that!