不安全的滑板车

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即使您不常出门,您很可能也见过最新的交通趋势:像 Razor 这样的公司生产的那些无处不在的银色滑板车。事实上,您很可能有过令人毛骨悚然的经历:看到一个孩子——或一个中年男子——骑着滑板车向您冲来,只是在片刻之后才勉强避免碰撞。尽管如此,如果未采取适当的预防措施,这些小型脚踏车辆可能有多危险,这一点可能会让您感到惊讶。阿拉巴马大学“首先思考伤害预防计划”的塔拉·多奇表示,自春季以来,与滑板车相关的急诊室就诊次数增加了 700%。 “美国消费品安全委员会表示,仅 8 月份就发生了 4,000 多起与滑板车相关的伤害事故,”她观察到。“骑手需要用轮滑者佩戴的相同装备来保护自己:一个覆盖脑干的头盔,以及护膝和护肘。” 多奇还指出,孩子们应该“远离街道”,不要在晚上骑车。

Kate Wong is an award-winning science writer and senior editor at 大众科学 focused on evolution, ecology, anthropology, archaeology, paleontology and animal behavior. She is fascinated by human origins, which she has covered for more than 25 years. Recently she has become obsessed with birds. Her reporting has taken her to caves in France and Croatia that Neandertals once called home, to the shores of Kenya's Lake Turkana in search of the oldest stone tools in the world, to Madagascar on an expedition to unearth ancient mammals and dinosaurs, to the icy waters of Antarctica, where humpback whales feast on krill, and on a "Big Day" race around the state of Connecticut to find as many bird species as possible in 24 hours. Kate is co-author, with Donald Johanson, of Lucy's Legacy: The Quest for Human Origins. She holds a bachelor of science degree in biological anthropology and zoology from the University of Michigan. Follow Wong on X (formerly Twitter) @katewong

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