Bicycle accidents and injuries. A random survey of a college population.
To determine the incidence of bicycle-related accidents and injuries in a given population 1,200 questionnaires were sent to a random sample of college students. Seventy-one percent of the students responded. Of the responders, 62% were bicyclists and 13% of these had been involved in an accident in the previous 1-year period. Sixty-two percent of those involved in an accident sustained an injury and 32% were significant enough to require medical attention. Only 8% of accidents were police-reported. If these trends hold true for other populations, studies based on hospital or police records fail to give a true picture of bicycle-related accidents and injuries.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001265:Athletic Injuries / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D006259:Craniocerebral Trauma / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011897:Random Allocation; D014922:Wisconsin