BIKE OR WALK DISTRACTED DISTRACTED WE’RE ALL IMPACTED Presented by: Jay Anderson, TSP. Executive Director, Stay Alive …. Just Drive!, Inc.

. "It's not just distracted drivers. We focus a lot on distracted drivers, but we also need to focus on distracted walkers and joggers,” said Jonathan Adkins, a spokesman for the Governors Highway Safety Association, a nonprofit organization representing state highway safety offices.

A Carnegie Mellon study demonstrated that talking on the cell phone while driving reduces the amount of brain activity associated with driving by 37 %. Now I think we can safely say that text messaging or talking on the cell phone while cycling or walking is no different.

Richard Wener, a professor of environmental psychology at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, says the emerging body of research on distracted drivers led him and two colleagues to look at pedestrians. I’m including bicyclists. Not surprisingly they found the same relationship between inattention and risk, but a greater VULNERABILITY

Preventable Tragic Examples Preventable Tragic Examples: Lisa Caroyln Moran, 20, a University of North Carolina exchange student from Scotland, was listening to an iPod while jogging when she stepped into the path of a bus in Chapel Hill, NC Lisa Caroyln Moran, 20, a University of North Carolina exchange student from Scotland, was listening to an iPod while jogging when she stepped into the path of a bus in Chapel Hill, NC Joshua Phillips White, 16 was wearing earphones and walking on a train track in Cramerton, NC., when a freight train hit him from behind, police said he apparently didn’t hear the locomotive approaching. Alan Eaton-Chandler, 17, was killed under similar circumstances when he was hit by an Amtrak train in Comstock Township, MI Joshua Phillips White, 16 was wearing earphones and walking on a train track in Cramerton, NC., when a freight train hit him from behind, police said he apparently didn’t hear the locomotive approaching. Alan Eaton-Chandler, 17, was killed under similar circumstances when he was hit by an Amtrak train in Comstock Township, MI Vicky Baker, 39 was talking on her cell phone when she was struck and killed by a train in Albertville, AL. Vicky Baker, 39 was talking on her cell phone when she was struck and killed by a train in Albertville, AL.

The Distracted Bicyclist A RECIPE FOR DISASTER The Distracted Bicyclist A RECIPE FOR DISASTER The Distracted Bicyclist A RECIPE FOR DISASTER

NOT A GOOD SIGN A 9-year-old La Grange girl told police she was looking at her cell phone just before her bicycle ran into the rear of a car at 50 th Street and Ninth Avenue at about 5:26 p.m. May 14. The girl was riding east on 50 th Street when the front tire of the bicycle hit the left rear quarter panel of a northbound 2002 Saturn driven by a 55-year-old La Grange man. That driver told La Grange police he thought the bicyclist was going at a high speed.

Who is getting killed in bicycling crashes? A detailed breakdown of the age, gender, and location of bicycle crash victims is available from The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Some of the more noteworthy trends and numbers are: The National Highway Traffic Safety AdministrationThe National Highway Traffic Safety Administration In 2009 the average age of bicyclists killed in crashes with motor vehicles was 41 years, up from 32 years in 1998, and 24 in In 2009 the average age of bicyclists killed in crashes with motor vehicles was 41 years, up from 32 years in 1998, and 24 in percent of those killed were male. 87 percent of those killed were male. 64 percent of those killed were between the ages of 25 and 64; 13 percent of those killed in 2008 were under age 16, down from 30 percent of those killed in percent of those killed were between the ages of 25 and 64; 13 percent of those killed in 2008 were under age 16, down from 30 percent of those killed in The average age of bicyclists injured in crashes with motor vehicles was 31 years, up from 24 years in The average age of bicyclists injured in crashes with motor vehicles was 31 years, up from 24 years in percent of those injured were male. 80 percent of those injured were male. 51 percent of those injured were between the ages of 25 and 64; 20 percent of those injured were under age percent of those injured were between the ages of 25 and 64; 20 percent of those injured were under age 16.

Time to stop this And start doing this And start doing this