Peachtree City Manager Bernie McMullen is thankful his recent bicycle spill on the cart path system wasn't any worse.

And he knows exactly why - he was wearing his bike helmet.

"I did whack my head on the asphalt," McMullen said of the July 7 incident. "It didn't faze me at all."

McMullen urges parents to use a bike helmet when riding with their children to set a good example.

"Your children do what they see you do, not what you tell them to do," McMullen said.

McMullen suffered five broken ribs in the crash, which he attributed to the slick condition of the paths from rain earlier in the day. It was originally thought he broke just one rib, but after being in tremendous pain after he was first released from the hospital, McMullen's wife Cathy had him go