Monday, June 3, 2013

Study: Bike lanes matter less than light, speed in reducing severity of crash injuries | OregonLive.com


With the past decade's rapid growth in bicycle commuting, several U.S. cities have been in a race to build dedicated bike lanes.
Portland has more than 181 miles of bike lanes. Chicago and Minneapolis have promised to surpass the Pacific Northwest's pedaling mecca.  
But dedicated bike lanes are not necessarily the most important factors in reducing the severity of injuries in crashes between bikes and cars, according to a new University at Buffalo study.
Instead, the findings, presented May 16 at the annual meeting of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, show light and speed are much bigger factors.
Dietrich Jehle, professor of emergency medicine, and Kelsey Helak, a student in the university's School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, examined whether cyclists injured in collisions with cars while traveling in bike lanes had less severe injuries than those sharing the same traffic lane.

Study: Bike lanes matter less than light, speed in reducing severity of crash injuries | OregonLive.com

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