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Ozark Cycling Club provides helmets for youngsters

Submitted by Brent Hugh on Mon, 12/27/2004 - 4:32pm
The Ozark Cycling Club is running a campaign to provide helmets to young cyclists and encourage bicyclists to wear helmets. The Springfield News-Leader story included this interesting fact:
Contrary to a common impression, bicycle-vehicle collisions aren't responsible for most bicycle-related head injuries.

Statistics for 2003 indicate that in Springfield most head injury accidents occur close to a child's home and involve falls, Holt said.
MoBikeFed has a summary of bicycle injury statistics in Missouri that reaches this same conclusion about bicycle injuries in general.
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