Effectiveness of protective clothing for motorized 2-wheeler riders.

CONCLUSIONS: This study confirms the potential for motorcycle clothing to protect users from injury, in particular abrasions and lacerations. However, it did not show any significant protective effect against more serious injuries, such as fracture, dislocation, or sprain, except for knee-high or ankle boots, which reduced foot and ankle fracture risk. Our results argue for more widespread use of protective clothing by MTW users.
PMID: 30901230 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Traffic Injury Prevention - March 21, 2019 Category: Accident Prevention Authors: Wu D, Hours M, Ndiaye A, Coquillat A, Martin JL Tags: Traffic Inj Prev Source Type: research