REASONS FOR FATAL CYCLING ACCIDENTS AND THE TYPES OF INJURIES SUSTAINED

In a region like Muensterland where cycling is commonplace cyclists not only make up a considerable part of traffic on the roads, but are also involved in traffic accidents. Out of the 108 cases where cyclists were killed in road accidents between 1985 and 1990, postmortems were carried out on 48 of the victims in the Institute of Legal Medicine in Muenster. The types of injury and the causes of accidents were analyzed as well as the epidemiological data. Two- thirds of all cases were caused by the cyclists themselves. One-third of the 27 cases checked had blood alcohol levels over the limit. 91.6% of cases had head injuries. This once again highlighted the necessity of bicycle safety helmets.

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  International Association for Accident and Traffic Medicine

  Huddinge University Hospital Center, Traffic Medicine Center
  Stockholm,   Sweden  141 86
• Authors:
  • BAJANOWSKI, T H
  • KUNZ, P
  • Brinkmann, B
• Publication Date: 1994

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 33-8
• Serial:
  • Journal of traffic medicine
  • Volume: 22
  • Issue Number: 1
  • Publisher: International Association for Accident and Traffic Medicine
  • ISSN: 0345-5564

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crashes; Cyclists; Head; Human factors; Injuries; Intoxication
• Uncontrolled Terms: Causes
• Geographic Terms: Germany
• ITRD Terms: 1643: Accident; 9003: Cause; 1742: Cyclist; 2231: Drunkenness; 8125: Germany; 2257: Human factor; 2163: Injury
• Subject Areas: Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00663384
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD, ATRI
• Created Date: Aug 24 1994 12:00AM