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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• Authors:
  • Hawley, D A
  • Clark, M A
  • Pless, J E
• Publication Date: 1995-3

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 205-207
• 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