不安全的滑板車

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即使您不常出門,您很可能也見過最新的交通趨勢:像 Razor 這樣的公司生產的那些無處不在的銀色滑板車。事實上,您很可能有過令人毛骨悚然的經歷:看到一個孩子——或一箇中年男子——騎著滑板車向您衝來,只是在片刻之後才勉強避免碰撞。儘管如此,如果未採取適當的預防措施,這些小型腳踏車輛可能有多危險,這一點可能會讓您感到驚訝。阿拉巴馬大學“首先思考傷害預防計劃”的塔拉·多奇表示,自春季以來,與滑板車相關的急診室就診次數增加了 700%。 “美國消費品安全委員會表示,僅 8 月份就發生了 4,000 多起與滑板車相關的傷害事故,”她觀察到。“騎手需要用輪滑者佩戴的相同裝備來保護自己:一個覆蓋腦幹的頭盔,以及護膝和護肘。” 多奇還指出,孩子們應該“遠離街道”,不要在晚上騎車。

Kate Wong is an award-winning science writer and senior editor at 大眾科學 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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