Bicycle helmet research.

Author(s)
Haworth, N. Schramm, A. King, M. & Steinhardt, D.
Year
Abstract

Recent research on bicycle helmets and concerns about how public bicycle hire schemes will function in the context of compulsory helmet wearing laws have drawn media attention. This monograph presents the results of research commissioned by the Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads to review the national and international literature regarding the health outcomes of cycling and bicycle helmets and examine crash and hospital data. It also includes critical examinations of the methodology used by Voukelatos and Rissel (2010), and estimates the likely effects of possible segmented approaches to bicycle helmet wearing legislation. The research concludes that current bicycle helmet wearing rates are halving the number of head injuries experienced by Queensland cyclists. Helmet wearing legislation discouraged people from cycling when it was first introduced but there is little evidence that it continues to do so. Cycling has significant health benefits and should be encouraged in ways that reduce the risk of the most serious injuries. Infrastructure and speed management approaches to improving the safety of cycling should be undertaken as part of a Safe System approach, but protection of the individual by simple and cost-effective methods such as bicycle helmets should also be part of an overall package of measures. (Author/publisher)

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Publication

Library number
C 50592 [electronic version only] /84 /
Source

Brisbane, Queensland, Centre for Accident Research & Road Safety – Queensland (CARRS-Q), 2011, XII + 60 p., 132 ref.; CARRS-Q Monograph Series ; Monograph 5 - ISBN 978-0-9751596-8-2

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