Research into e-bike accidents in Switzerland -

[cj7hawk]

An interesting article I noticed while looking up information on the net -

http://www.hindawi.com/journals/emi/2014/850236/

Interesting comments on the injuries - Mostly head/neck injuries and males around 47 yo...

Regards
David

[cj7hawk]

And an article about the same on China ( makes sense when you read the first article from Switzerland )

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/ ... tric-bikes

Regards
David

[cj7hawk]

And more from Switzerland categorizing fault in fatal accidents -

http://www.thelocal.ch/20131022/serious ... ke-upwards

Regards
David

[Mububban]

Haven't read the articles sorry, but I'm going to guess that e-bikes are attractive to those who haven't previously done much riding on the road and/or longer distances, so they'll have less experience and like anything, will sometimes learn the hard way.

[cj7hawk]

Haven't read the articles sorry, but I'm going to guess that e-bikes are attractive to those who haven't previously done much riding on the road and/or longer distances, so they'll have less experience and like anything, will sometimes learn the hard way.

The general gist of the articles is that in places like China where they typically do nothing to address safety, there's lots of bad things happen to riders in an accidents.

In Switzerland, they have very few accidents requiring medical attention and massive amounts of people cycling on e-bikes. Many accidents are from getting the front wheel caught in tramlines and most accidents are centered around 45yo males. Head and chest injuries of varying severity. Alcohol appears to be a significant contributing factor also.

Other vehicles are involved most of the time also...

Regards
David