Personal and trip characteristics associated with safety equipment use by injured adult bicyclists: a cross-sectional study

Table 2 Safety equipment use on the trip: bike lights; visible clothing; and helmets

	At least one bike light turned on	Highly visible clothing worn on the torso	Helmet worn
	Yes/No*	Yes/No	Yes/No
At least one bike light turned on
Yes	135/0	49/86	102/33
No	0/555	181/374	376/179
Highly visible clothing worn on the torso
Yes	49/181	230/0	169/61
No	86/374	0/460	309/151
Helmet worn
Yes	102/376	169/309	478/0
No	33/179	61/151	0/212

* Note that all “no” categories also include those who didn’t know or refused to answer the question;
· for “at least one bike light turned on”, 7 participants (1.01%) indicated they didn’t know;
· for “highly visible clothing worn on the torso”, 56 indicated they didn’t know (8.1%), and;
· for “helmet worn”, 2 indicated they didn’t know and 1 refused (0.44%);

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