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Safety in the news...
A Message to the children….
You may think you're a pretty good biker, but crashes happen all the time to very good riders. In fact:
- Wearing a bike helmet is the single most important thing you can do to protect your brain - and your like - when you ride your bike.
- Children between ages 5 and 14 have the highest rate of injury of all bicycle riders.
- Each year, more than 500,000 children go to hospital emergency rooms or doctors' offices due to bicycle injuries.
- More than half of these collisions happen on neighborhood streets, sidewalks, or playgrounds.
Nationally, only about 15 percent of all kids wear bike helmets. In an AAA survey of school children, here's how often kids wore bike helmets:
Always or most of the time 43%
Occasionally 11%
Seldom or never 44%
No answer 2%
As you can see, more than half of the children surveyed don't wear bike helmets most of the time. This means lots of these kids could be injured riding bikes.
Ten tips for safe bike riding:
1. Always wear a bike helmet.
2. Stop and check traffic before riding into a street.
3. Don't ride at night.
4. Obey traffic signs and signals.
5. Ride on the right-hand side of the road.
6. Check your brakes before riding.
7. Give cars and pedestrians the right-of-way.
8. Wear light or bright-colored clothing so that motorists can see you.
9. Be extra careful turning left - motorists don't expect it.
10. Avoid broken pavement, loose gravel and leaves - which can cause you to lose control of your bike.
The Public Safety Department is proud to announce it’s first
Bicycle Safety Day
On August 14th from 3:00 - 6:00 PM at the Good Shepherd Plaza,RIPSD, NYC DOT and Safe Kids NYC
co-sponsored this event and handed out 244 FREE Bicycle Helmets to the community.
Keith Guerra
Director of Public SafetyClick Here to see past articles
