Journal
JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY HEALTH
Volume 44, Issue 3, Pages 577-579Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10900-018-00599-1
Keywords
Helmet; Injury prevention; Bicycling; Free-floating bike share
Funding
- Eunice Kennedy Shiver National Institute for Child Health and Human Development [T32HD057822]
- Better Bike Share Partnership
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Wearing a helmet when bicycling prevents traumatic brain injury in the event of a crash. Most cyclists nationwide use helmets when riding. However, the growth of free-floating bike sharing systems, which offer short-term access to bicycles but not helmets, may erode helmet-wearing norms among cyclists. We counted cyclists over several hours at four locations in Seattle, WA. We categorized each rider according to whether he or she was wearing a helmet and to whether or not he or she was riding a bike share bike. Whereas 91% of riders of private bikes wore helmets, only 20% of bike share riders wore helmets. Moreover, in locations where a greater proportion of riders were on bikes hare bikes, fewer riders of private bicycles wore helmets (r=-0.96, p=0.04). The impact of bike sharing programs on helmet wearing norms among private bike riders warrants further exploration.
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