LOW speed bicycle crashes can badly injure —or even kill—children
if they fall onto the ends of the handlebars. So a team of engineers is
redesigning the humble handlebar in a bid to make it safer.
Kristy Arbogast, a bioengineer at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in
Pennsylvania, began the project with her colleagues after a study of serious
abdominal injuries in children in the past 30 years showed that more than a
third were caused by bicycle accidents. “The task was to identify how the
injuries occurred and come up with some countermeasures,” she says.
By interviewing the…
