“Our findings show that bike lanes or paved shoulders by themselves do not significantly reduce the severity of injuries sustained by cyclists,” says co-author Dietrich Jehle, MD, professor of emergency medicine in the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and at Erie County Medical Center. “The data show that other factors may be more important in reducing the severity of cyclists’ injuries, including the speed of motor vehicles traveling near them and how much light there is.”
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