title: Bicycle injuries in children.
abstract: An analysis of 405 bicycle accidents in children under 15 years of age resulting in their attendance at hospital has shown that those having accidents while riding modern "high-rise" bicycles suffered head injury and bone fracture and required hospital admission more frequently than did those riding conventional models. "High-rise" accidents tended to occur on newly acquired and borrowed machines, suggesting that lack of experience of the handling properties of these bicycles may be a factor in the causation of accidents.
mesh_terms: D000063:Accidents, Traffic; D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006259:Craniocerebral Trauma; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012737:Sex Factors; D012867:Skin / Q000293:injuries