Safety Bike
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Be Prepared: Teach Your Young Child Bike Safety
It's never too early to start teaching a child the essentials of bicycle safety. Bike related accidents account for approximately 200 deaths in kids under the age of 15 annually. The number of chilcren requiring professional medical attention for a bike injury is over 300,000 with more than 8,000 of those youngsters requiriing hospitlization.
The Children's Safety Network estimates that those statistics would double without bike helmets. The fact that helmets save the lives of cyclists is undisputed, yet parents often relent when kids refuse to wear a helmet. Don't be afraid to take a stand.
Any lesson on learning to ride a bike should begin with bicycle safety. These lessons can begin as early as preschool age or even before. Parents should set an example for their kids by wearing a helmet themselves when riding and insisting their child do the same if they are in a bike seat or bike trailer.
Kids in preschool and younger aren't ready to handle the tough challenges of negotiating the rules of bike safety alone, but they can start to learn. Beyond wearing a helmet, parents should be constantly reviewing the basics of bike safety with their toddler age children. Show your child the areas you consider to be safe for riding. When riding with a child, stop at intersections and stop signs and explain why you are making these safety stops.
Most people emphasize balance as the first lesson of bike riding and it is important, but bike survial skills are the most important. A child should be taught how to avoid a crash before they learn how to balance.
The Bicycle Helmet Safety Institute makes the following recommendations:
1. Always stop before riding into the street.
2. Obey stop signs.
3. Check behind you before swerving, turning or changing lanes.
4. Always ride on the right side of the street.
5. Never follow another rider without obeying rules 1-4.
Mastering balance and learning to ride can be attained at an early age. It's a child's inability to process the information that allows us to realize the inherent dangers in bike riding that makes the activity risky.Their limitation is their inability to grasp the danger inherent in the activity. They won't understand it without consistent, repeated lessons from their parents
Begin teaching them bike safety early and make it an emphasis on every ride. Show them the safe areas to ride, how and when to stop and remind them of the rules to avoid a crash.
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