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Injury Prevention Technologies
Troxel Cycling & Fitness is a leader in recreational head protection products. The company was derived from Troxel, founded in 1898.
Wearing a helmet while bicycling can reduce your risk of a serious head injury by 85%. It's especially important for children to wear helmets, since they account for 70% of all bicycle-related injuries treated in emergency rooms—and 50 percent of all fatalities.
Richard M. Timms, M.D., President and CEO of Troxel Cycling & Fitness, is a graduate of John Hopkins School of Medicine and a recognized authority on Injury Prevention. Dr. Timms created the SafeTech division to conduct bike helmet awareness campaigns for children and to provide a means for individuals to buy an effective product for reducing the risk of head injuries.
This division works extensively with hospitals, grant programs and non-profit organizations. The SafeTech bulk helmet program offers great prices on a variety of helmets and takes advantage of bulk shipping rates. SafeTech has partnered with major national safety programs: American Academy of Pediatrics, Prudential Health Care, PTA's, American Association of ER Physicians and many other organizations.
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Bicycle Helmet Safety Fact Sheet
- Wearing a bicycle helmet reduces the risk of head injury by 85%
- Concussions or "minor" head injuries can produce long term problems with memory, learning and depression.
- Head injury is the primary contributing cause in 70 - 80% of all bicycling fatalities.
- Most bicycle crashes involving children do not involve automobiles. Most children are
injured when they fall from their bicycles, collide with fixed objects or lose control due
to mechanical problems or road conditions.
- Nationally, approximately 600 children die each year from bicycle related injuries, with 80% of the victims suffering head trauma.
- The lifetime costs for one severely head injured bicyclist averages about $4.5 million.
- The overall yearly economic costs of bicycle injuries to children nationally are in excess of $1 billion.
- Wearing helmets has decreased head injuries in other recreational sports including football, baseball and hockey.
- Currently, in most communities, less than 20% of children wear bicycle helmets.
- It is estimated that if all bicyclists in the U.S. wore helmets, one bicycle related death would be prevented each day and one head injury would be prevented every 4 minutes.
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