Metro

Biker’s helmet beef fatal

ONONDAGA, NY — A motorcyclist at a protest ride against helmet laws was killed after he flipped over his handlebars and struck his head on the pavement.

State troopers said Philip Contos, 55, was driving a 1983 Harley with other bikers protesting the laws by not wearing helmets.

They said he would have likely survived if he had been wearing a helmet.