Bicycle Safety and Preventative Measures for Reducing Injuries
Bicycle accidents can be dangerous, but preventative measures like wearing helmets, creating bike lanes, and following safety guidelines can save lives. Understanding the risks, implementing pre, during, and post-event strategies, and promoting environmental changes are key to promoting bike safety. Active measures like wearing fluorescent clothing and ensuring bike visibility, coupled with passive measures like road engineering for bike lanes, can significantly improve safety for cyclists. Remember, prevention is key to reducing the risk of bicycle-related injuries and fatalities.
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M10: Unintentional injuries: Bicycle safety IVANNA ODABI
Bicycle Safety Although often underlooked as fatal, bicycles can be very dangerous if preventative measures are not taken. simple things such as wearing a helmet or raising awareness to create bicycle lanes is important in society could save your life.
Severity Bike accidents account for only 1% of all trips in the United States, but have higher rate of crashes/ deaths than people in motor vehicles (WSQR). equal percentages of pedal cyclist fatalities occurred in daylight crashes as during. General rates of fatality re increasing gradually pedal cyclist fatality rate per million people was almost 6 times higher for males than females in 2015 The average age of bicyclists killed in motor vehicle-related accidents is increasing as well, current median age is around 40. -social math?
Haddon Matrix Outline of Risks Person or host agent Physical environment Good road Good visibility Good weather Social environment Safety laws exist and are enforced Pre-event Pedal cyclist does not use drugs/alcohol, and is attentative Bike is well maintained, Some form of reflective lights is visible from outside Event Wears helmet Cyclist is paying attention to surroundings Rides at controlled speed Keep proper distance from cars Bike has pumped tires Brakes are working Helmet is properly fitted Presence of road shoulders or bicycle lanes Good quality, fast EMS systems bystander assistance Post- event Has access to phone Knows first aid Design bike to be lightweight Access to health service Effective incident management Physical and psychological recovery
Preventative measures Bicycle helmets are the best and most -Bicycle helmet laws are effective for increasing helmet use and reducing crash-related injuries and deaths Preventative Interventions: Wear Fluorescent clothing to be more visible Active lighting may improve the visibility of bicyclists. Need to go back and work on this part ***Information about roadway engineering measures, like bike lanes, that can improve safety for bicyclists is available from The Pedestrian and Bicycle Information CenterExternal. *What is your call to action? Remember to address passive and active prevention strategies. Do not address only education, include environmental change. Write your action-oriented statements below. Write complete sentences, not just bullets. Organize your recommendations by pre-event (primary prevention), event, and post-event. Provide a reference for each recommendation.
Takeaway Message Need to go back and work on this part : Possible mention something along the lines of the severity of riding around with little to know protection from the outside, unlike a car, and how injury preventative measures and safety in general should be taken more serious. mention bicycle safety is overlooked because it is just viewed as a pass time majority of the time but it really could be very fatal.
Annotated Bibliography National Highway Traffic Safety Administration- fact sheet on fatal motor vehicle crashes and fatalities Slides from haddon matrix module 8- The Haddon Matrix includes all relevant factors related to injury problem. WSQRS- Explained overall safety information on bicycle injuries.
Reference list ***Need to go back and proberly site and list out references National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Traffic Safety Facts, 2015 data bicyclists and other cyclistsExternal. Washington, DC: US Department of Transportation; 2017. (Publication no. DOT HS 812 382). file:///C:/Users/Owner_1/Downloads/2015%20Traffic%20Safety%20Fa ct%20Sheet%20Bicyclists%20&%20Other%20Cyclists.pdf haddon matrix, module 8 slides have to go back and properly cite/add more
