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Most common bicycle accidents and how can you prevent them?

May 29, 2018
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For the first time in 2017, there were more traffic fatalities among bicyclists than motorists. A total of 613 road users died in traffic accidents. These included 206 cyclists, and 201 car occupants died. What are bicycle accidents mainly caused by?

Using the smartphone in traffic

Just continuing to use a smartphone while cycling has become normal on the streets. But it is, of course, very dangerous. After all, you cannot type or read a message and also pay enough attention to the road. Among young people, 20 percent of traffic accidents are due to smartphone use. The risk is just too great.

Cyclists move faster by e-bike

There are more and more bikes with pedal assistance. Of course, this also causes more bicycle accidents. This is simply because of the much higher speed compared to a regular bicycle. More deaths from bicycle accidents is disturbing, but it does give a distorted picture. There are more than two million e-bikes in circulation. So more and more miles are being ridden on these bikes. Older e-bikers in particular die in traffic accidents. As many as 87 percent of deceased e-bikers are over 60. This is not because seniors mostly own e-bikes. Half of e-bikes are owned by an owner who is not yet elderly.

Many bicycle accidents due to unsafe county roads

The ANWB surveyed provincial roads in 2014. This showed that 63 percent of the roads are not safe enough. These results were sent to the provinces to try to get road authorities to do something about road safety.

How can you increase road safety?

Step one is no longer operating the smartphone on the road. E-bike users can be taught how to handle an e-bike. Other traffic also needs to get used to the speed of e-bikes. Other road users do not expect such speed from a bicycle. This is because e-bikes are difficult to distinguish from a normal bicycle and they do not make noise like mopeds do. Making county roads safer is not something you can do much about as a cyclist.

Many bicycle accidents are preventable by keeping e-bike speeds low. So here is a task for the owners of the two million e-bikes.

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