FATALITIES INVOLVING BICYCLES: A NON-RANDOM POPULATION
Bicycle riders constitute a small subgroup of all roadway deaths. Bicycle/motor vehicle collision fatalities are less frequent than pedestrian/motor vehicle fatalities. Studies have shown that non-fatal injuries of bicyclists are not randomly distributed, but follow age and sex trends that differ in the U.S. and Scandinavia. Although the bicycle-related fatalities reviewed herein do not constitute a complete profile of all such cases within our geographic area, review of these cases does provide insight into the non-random population of fatally injured cyclists in urban and rural America. A retrospective demographic and forensic medical review of 36 bicycle-related fatalities was done to clarify features of this non-random population. Consistent features including age and sex, patterned injuries and risk-taking behavior are discussed. Three of 24 (12%) adult cyclists died of homicidal gunshot wounds.
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Corporate Authors:
American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM)
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Authors:
- Hawley, D A
- Clark, M A
- Pless, J E
- Publication Date: 1995-3
Language
- English
Media Info
- Pagination: p. 205-207
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Serial:
- Journal of Forensic Sciences
- Volume: 40
- Issue Number: 2
- Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
- ISSN: 0022-1198
- EISSN: 1556-4029
- Serial URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1556-4029
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Age; Cyclists; Fatalities; Forensic medicine; Risk taking
- Geographic Terms: Scandinavia
- Subject Areas: Highways; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Safety and Human Factors; I81: Accident Statistics;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00728967
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Dec 2 1996 12:00AM