OBJECTIVES To assess the impact of a community based bicycle helmet programme aimed at children aged 5-12 years (about 140,000) from poor and well off municipalities. METHODS A quasi-experimental design, including a control group, was used. Changes in the risk of bicycle related head injuries leading to hospitalisation were measured, using rates ratios. RESULTS Reductions in bicycle related...

Objectives: To assess the impact of a community based bicycle helmet programme aimed at children aged 5–12 years (about 140 000) from poor and well off municipalities. Methods: A quasi-experimental design, including a control group, was used. Changes in the risk of bicycle related head injuries leading to hospitalisation were measured, using rates ratios. Results: Reductions in bicycle related ...

We created a novel air-filled bicycle helmet. The aims of this study were (i) to assess the head injury mitigation performance proposed helmet and (ii) compare those results against an expanded polystyrene (EPS) traditional Two types subjected impacts in guided vertical drop tests onto flat anvil: EPS helmets (Bumpair). maximum acceleration value recorded during test on Bumpair was 86.76 ± 3.06...

BACKGROUND Bicycling is healthy but needs to be safer for more to bike. Police crash templates are designed for reporting crashes between motor vehicles, but not between vehicles/bicycles. If written/drawn bicycle-crash-scene details exist, these are not entered into spreadsheets. OBJECTIVE To assess which bicycle-crash-scene data might be added to spreadsheets for analysis. METHODS Police ...