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Who has them? |
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What are their causes? |
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How can they be prevented? |
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What are prevention priorities? |
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Criteria among different studies vary somewhat. |
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But generally, injury, or damage to the bicycle. |
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Minor injuries count (sprained ankle, road rash
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Or damage requiring repair to the bicycle;
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Most injuries except head injuries heal quickly. |
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Some studies have a separate category for
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Stopping |
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Skidding |
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Diversion |
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Insufficient speed |
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Standardizing, publicizing and enforcing the
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Better rear reflector standard. |
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Taillamps, greater use than before. |
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Reduction of drunk driving (many other benefits) |
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The crash risk is outweighed by the health
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As U.S. bicycle use has increased greatly,
fatalities have decreased slightly |
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Lifetime fatality risk is about the same as for
a lifetime as a motorist. |
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For Effective Cyclists and helmet users, risk is
far lower than the average. |
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Bicyclists belong on the road. |
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Ride with defensively but with confidence [and
with pride]. |
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Bicyclists have rights and responsibilities. |
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Good bicycling is good citizenship. |
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Effective cycling is liberating: it provides
independent mobility for all ages and economic levels. |
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Learn the craft. |
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Safe bicycling is skillful bicycling. |
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There can be only one system of traffic law |
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Understand risks to minimize them. |
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Practice for what you can’t predict. |
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The bicyclist should claim a nar-row lane
if necessary to avoid
road-edge hazards. |
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On a multilane road with narrow lanes, the
bicyclist should claim the right lane to avoid being “squeezed out” when
being passed by two cars at once. |
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A motorcyclist going as fast as the cars should
ride in the middle of the lane. Should a bicyclist? What’s the difference? Is there a
difference? |
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Cross each lane in two steps. Merging is
necessary to prepare for a turn, or if the lane becomes narrower. |
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People don’t have eyes in the back of their
heads. You merge so you have to deal only with traffic ahead of you once
you reach the intersection. It is
sometimes useful to turn left by crossing as a pedestrian. |
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Going straight through also may require moving
away from the right side of the road, to avoid right-turning vehicles. |
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You know how to manage a traffic circle if you
analyze it as what it is: a one-way road with a number of T intersections
to the right. |
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Pedal hard to get good exercise. |
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Low gears are for wimps. |
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Toe clips are dangerous. |
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The seat is too high, I can’t stand over it. |
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I want high handlebars so I can sit up straight. |
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Accident avoidance will be demonstrated in the
hands-on session: |
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Testing drivers’ intentions |
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Quick stop |
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Quick turn |
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Rock dodge |
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Rock hop |
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