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Information Heart SafetyNL is worried in regards to the enhance within the quantity of people that find yourself within the emergency division (ED) after an accident with a fats bike. Figures from 14 of the 83 emergency departments within the Netherlands present that increasingly more victims of accidents involving any such electrical bicycle have been registered there lately. In 2022 there have been seven victims, final yr that quantity elevated to 59 and within the first 4 months of this yr 33 fats bike riders already ended up within the emergency room.
The rise could also be as a result of extra fats bikes have been offered lately. However in response to VeiligheidNL, the figures present a great image of an underlying drawback that the group sees. “Fats bikes are more and more a part of the road scene and are engaging to younger highway customers,” says director Martijntje Bakker. “Two in 5 victims are within the age group 10 to 14 years. A couple of third of the victims had mind harm, of which about half had critical mind harm. We expect that oldsters and younger kids would profit from extra consciousness in regards to the dangers of a fats bike.”
The youngest recorded fats bike accident sufferer within the first 4 months of this yr was 4 years previous. The kid was driving on the again of the bicycle as a passenger.
Based on SafetyNL, the 59 accidents involving fats bikes registered final yr ought to be considered the decrease restrict of the particular variety of accidents involving electrical bicycles with further giant tires. That’s as a result of the info comes from just one sixth of the whole variety of emergency rooms within the Netherlands. It is usually not recorded in all instances {that a} biking sufferer was on a fats bike.
