{"id":121963135,"date":"2008-11-12T14:38:55","date_gmt":"2008-11-12T14:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=121963135"},"modified":"2008-11-12T14:38:55","modified_gmt":"2008-11-12T14:38:55","slug":"bicycles-still-a-major-source-of-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=121963135","title":{"rendered":"Bicycles Still a Major Source of Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although bicycles are a healthy and cost-saving alternative form of transportation, they&#8217;re also the cause of a lot of childhood injuries.<br \/>\nIn fact, automobiles are the only other consumer product that causes more childhood injuries.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n[Hmmm, and being a passenger in a car is the leading cause of premature death for kids in the United States and that wrong way bike riding is still a significant component of car\/bike crashes and they are concerned about bike helmets? I will strongly assert that the over emphasis on wearing helmets and zilch on safe riding practices and the hazards to public health of having car centric roads is a major evil in our society and bike helmets alone are not going to fix this.]<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe complete article: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.consumeraffairs.com\/news04\/2008\/11\/bicycles_injuries.html\">https:\/\/www.consumeraffairs.com\/news04\/2008\/11\/bicycles_injuries.html<\/a><br \/>\nIf you are interested in child safety while riding a bike: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.activelivingresources.org\/assets\/bikesafety.pdf\">https:\/\/www.activelivingresources.org\/assets\/bikesafety.pdf<\/a>oldId.20081112143855131<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although bicycles are a healthy and cost-saving alternative form of transportation, they&#8217;re also the cause of a lot of childhood injuries. In fact, automobiles are the only other consumer product that causes more childhood injuries. &#8230; [Hmmm, and being a passenger in a car is the leading cause of premature death for kids in the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=121963135\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bicycles Still a Major Source of Injury&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121963135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121963135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121963135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121963135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121963135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121963135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121963135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}